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lchic
- 09:01am Jan 21, 2003 EST (#
7865 of 7880) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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North Korea
NK Prison Camps
An in-depth look at the NK underground church by The
Sentinel Group, a research organization for Christian missions
and community transformation...[more]
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Kim Jong Il institutionalizes medical torture, forced
labor, and summary execution... [more]
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1 million dead, 200,000 in detention camps, children attend
executions. US State Dept Country Report on Human Rights
Practices, February 2001...[more]
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Pierre Rigoulot's comparative analysis of concentration
camps in Nazi Germany and NK...[more]
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Juche ideology and political prison camps, a study on the
correlation between them in NK...[more]
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~jeffpark/fullpage.html
lchic
- 09:08am Jan 21, 2003 EST (#
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NK - Reports on Human Rights Practices - USA
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/726.htm
The Penal Code is draconian, stipulating capital punishment
and confiscation of all assets for a wide variety of "crimes
against the revolution," including defection, attempted
defection, slander of the policies of the party or State,
listening to foreign broadcasts, writing "reactionary"
letters, and possessing reactionary printed matter. The
Government prohibits freedom of speech, the press, assembly,
and association, and all forms of cultural and media
activities are under the tight control of the party. Radios
sold in North Korea receive North Korean radio broadcasts
only; radios obtained abroad by the general public must be
altered to work in a similar manner. Cable News Network (CNN)
television is available in one Pyongyang hotel frequented by
foreigners. Under these circumstances, little outside
information reaches the public except that approved and
disseminated by the Government. The Government restricts
freedom of religion, citizens' movements, and worker rights.
There were reports of trafficking in women and young girls
among refugees and workers crossing the border into China.
lchic
- 09:21am Jan 21, 2003 EST (#
7867 of 7880) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Israeli Election -- http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-20-2003-34013.asp
"" Eighty percent of Haredim are not employed and rely
heavily on government stipends to study religious texts.
Underpinning the challenge to the Haredim is Mr Lapid's
association of the religious with what he describes as the
rest of the Middle East's "corrupt, lazy and backward"
environment.
"Israel exists by virtue of being a western state, a
high-tech country, one which has adopted European cultural
values and Anglo-Saxon democratic principles - which stand in
complete opposition to the Levantine disarray," he said.
Missing from the equation is a policy on the Palestinians.
"" .... more ....
http://www.buzzle.com/index.asp
lchic
- 09:25am Jan 21, 2003 EST (#
7868 of 7880) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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NK Defectors
http://north-korea.narod.ru/defectors_new_3.htm
Few had expected, though, to see a single woman arrested by
immigration officials at the end of what she described as a
perilous journey over seven years through several countries.
The woman identified herself as Kim Soon-hi, 37, a former
elementary school teacher in Musan, North Hamgyeong Province.
She reportedly told officials at the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service in San Diego that she left North Korea
in 1994 and lived in the northeastern Chinese city of Yanbian
for six years, doing various odd jobs, before embarking on her
trip to the United States last November. She is said to have
left her eight-year-old son with an ethnic Korean in China,
from whom she borrowed the money she needed to buy a forged
passport and make the trip. She allegedly walked across a
partly frozen river, carrying her little son on her shoulders,
into China in February 1994. Two other people who were
crossing the river with her were shot to death by North Korean
guards, according to her story
lchic
- 10:02am Jan 21, 2003 EST (#
7869 of 7880) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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PEACE - within - Dendritic cells may be central to halting
the body's immune system from attacking itself http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s765183.htm
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