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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: TomSea on January 10, 2020, 09:42:31 am

Title: North Korea’s prisons are ‘worse than Auschwitz’ claims war crimes judge who survived Nazi death cam
Post by: TomSea on January 10, 2020, 09:42:31 am
I came across these articles from 2017 the other day, I thought they were curious.

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UNTOLD EVIL North Korea’s prisons are ‘worse than Auschwitz’ claims war crimes judge who survived Nazi death camps as a child

Former judge at International Court of Justice says North Korea's brutal regime is worse than the Nazis in its treatment of political prisoners

    Neal Baker for The SunDebbie Schipp for News.com.au

A NAZI concentration camp survivor has said North Korea's brutal political prisons are worse than Auschwitz.

Thomas Buergenthal, a former International Court of Justice judge, this week called on tyrannical dictator Kim Jong-un to be trialled for crimes against humanity.

As a child he was housed in ungodly squalor at Hitler's evil death factories Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen.

But he claimed even these are outmatched in their depravity by the remote work camps where undesirables are locked up by the enslaving North Korean regime.

Read more at: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5128520/north-korea-prison-camps-worse-than-auschwitz-kim-jong-un/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5128520/north-korea-prison-camps-worse-than-auschwitz-kim-jong-un/)

More reading: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2303387/north-korea-kim-jong-un-human-rights-group-reveal-rapidly-growing-prisoner-populations-in-nazi-style-camps-using-photographs-from-space/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2303387/north-korea-kim-jong-un-human-rights-group-reveal-rapidly-growing-prisoner-populations-in-nazi-style-camps-using-photographs-from-space/)


    13 Dec 2017, 10:27Updated: 13 Dec 2017, 13:16