Human Rights Of The Korean Camps - 1269 Words

â€Å"Let it begin,† The grim faced man declared as a bony male, covered in grimy rags, was dragged into view. The prisoner had cuts and bruises all over his face and body, showing evident signs that he was thoroughly tortured. The captive man stared blankly off into space, his mind and body both beaten to a pulp, then he started weeping knowing that his life would be coming to an end. He cried out to his family, but was returned with silence and expressionless faces. There were no tears shed for the poor, innocent man when he was shot repeatedly. If his family felt even a slight tinge of remorse for the â€Å"criminal† they too would be executed in the same fashion. This is what is happening in North Korean camps, the enslavement, the torture, and†¦show more content†¦One human right is the right to be given what you need in order to not fall ill, have clothes, a home, and a job. It also states that the old and young are to be recieved special care. Then why i s it that in North Korea and when African American slavery was around, it never happened? In Stolen Into Slavery there was an senile man named Abram, that was ordered to pick the same amount of cotton as everyone else- and to be whipped just like everyone else if he disobeyed. Young children and toddlers also fell ill because of the excessive work given to them, as soon as they were able to walk. What’s even worse is that small rations of food was given out. The slaves were starved and fell sick multiple times, while the masters ate their hoards of food greedily. Similar to that event, there was a famine that struck in North Korea in 1994-1998, where the citizens had to eat grass like cows and tree bark, while the â€Å"all-powerful† dictator had plenty of food to give to the needy. Children, the same age as you, are getting raped and slowly starving to death, with no shelter from the cold weather. Inside the concentration camps, people are not better off, in â€Å"No rth Korea: Accounts from Camp Survivors† from The Huffington Post, Lee Young-Kuk states, â€Å"The prisoners were given very little corn, but cows ate a lot of it. The cow dung had corn in it. So the old men would pick it out and eat it. They had such a strong will to live. it was like