Chungsan concentration camp

Chungsan concentration camp
Chosŏn'gŭl 증산 제11호교화소
Hancha 甑山第十一號敎化所
Revised Romanization Jeungsan Je11ho Gyohwaso
McCune–Reischauer Chŭngsan Che11ho Kyohwaso
Chosŏn'gŭl 증산 정치범 수용소
Hancha 甑山政治犯收容所
Revised Romanization Jeungsan Jeongchibeom Suyongso
McCune–Reischauer Chŭngsan Chŏngch'ibŏm Suyongso

Chungsan concentration camp (also spelled Jeungsan, Jungsan or Joongsan) is a reeducation camp in North Korea. Its official name is Kyo-hwa-so No. 11 (Reeducation camp no. 11).

Location

The camp is in Chungsan county, in South Pyongan province of North Korea. It is un the Yellow Sea coast, around 50 km (31 mi) west of Pyongyang.[1]

Description

Chungsan
Pyongyang
Location of Chungsan camp in North Korea

Chungsan camp is a sprawling largely women's penitentiary with between 3,300[2] and 5,000 prisoners.[1] Since 1999 the camp is used to detain female defectors,[3] which account for 50–60% of the prisoners, while others are incarcerated for theft, prostitution, unauthorized trade, etc.[2] The camp is surrounded by agricultural plots, where the prisoners have to grow rice and corn[4] for delivery to the Ministry of Public Security.[1]

Human rights situation

The food rations are very small. According to a former prisoner, one third of the prisoners died from combinations of malnutrition, disease, and forced labor within a year.[1] Dead prisoners are buried in mass graves on a nearby hill.[3][5] She reported that the prisoners were often beaten with iron bars, if they did not work hard enough.[1] She got very ill, because her wounds from the beatings got infected.

In interviews other former prisoners reported about

Prisoners (witnesses)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Hidden Gulag – Exposing Crimes against Humanity in North Korea's Vast Prison System (p. 91 - 93)" (PDF). The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Forced Labour in North Korean Prison Camps (p. 43 - 45)" (PDF). Anti-Slavery International, 2007. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  3. 1 2 "N.Korea's Worst Concentration Camp Exposed". Chosun Ilbo. March 23, 2010. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Prisoners in North Korea Today" (PDF), Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, July 15, 2011, retrieved May 11, 2012 |chapter= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ "수잰 숄티가 번역한 주성하 기자의 기사 (Congress Hearing March 5, 2012; section 2 Kkot Dong San)". Dong-A Ilbo. March 7, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Prisoners in North Korea Today" (PDF), Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, July 15, 2011, retrieved May 11, 2012 |chapter= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ "Prisoners in North Korea Today" (PDF), Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, July 15, 2011, retrieved May 11, 2012 |chapter= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ "Prisoners in North Korea Today" (PDF), Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, July 15, 2011, retrieved May 11, 2012 |chapter= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ "Prisoners in North Korea Today" (PDF), Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, July 15, 2011, retrieved May 11, 2012 |chapter= ignored (help)
  10. 1 2 "A Report on a Survey of Torture on North Korean Defectors Deported Back to North Korea" (PDF). No Fence. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Prisoners in North Korea Today" (PDF), Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, July 15, 2011, retrieved May 11, 2012 |chapter= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ "Prisoners in North Korea Today" (PDF). Database Center for North Korean Human Rights. July 15, 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2012.

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