North Korean Prisons Worse Than Nazi Camps Speaks Auschwitz survivor (Photo)

Thomas Bouergenthal, who served at the International Court of Justice, is one of three lawyers who have concluded that North Korean leader Kim Jong must be tried for crimes against humanity in the way his regime uses political prisoners to brutal control the population.

“I believe North Korean prison camps are terrible, or worse, than what I saw and experienced in my youth in these Nazi camps where in my long professional career in the field of human rights”, said Buyergental, who was in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen as a child, as well as in the Kielces ghetto, Poland.

He was part of a panel that also included Navy Pillay, a South African judge who headed the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and later became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Mark Hermon, an American judge who worked in Yugoslavia and Cambodia in which he handled war crimes cases.

The three evidence heard by former prisoners, guards and prison experts as part of an investigation initiated by the International Bar Association.

The resulting report, which will be released on Tuesday, found there was sufficient evidence to charge Kim regime with 10 out of 11 internationally recognised war crimes involving murder, slavery, torture and sexual violence because of the use of prison political camps.

Kim's three generations have governed North Korea as a totalitarian state defined by a comprehensive personality cult that treats leaders as demigods.

Experts estimate there are about 130,000 North Koreans held in four large camps, where they are forced to do hard work, often in the mines, and take too little to provide food, clothing or heating, reports The Independent<18x1>, broadcast Periscopi. The regime also operates in subx2> education camps” for counter-invention. They're brutal.

Extensive human rights abuses of North Korea are documented in an important report by the UN Investigation Commission in 2014. Afterward, the International Lawyers Association decided to conduct a specific investigation into prison political camps.

The three judges heard evidence and read posters from former prisoners and prison guards in North Korea, covering a period of 1970-2006.

The judges also heard of the rapes and forced abortions of resulting animal women, sometimes leading to the death of women.

A prison camp survivor, a doctor who had been caught trying to escape to China, said he was naked and hung upside down, beaten, tortured with fire or water and had water mixed with special pepper to stick on his nose and mouth.

Of the 11 crimes against humanity listed in the International Criminal Court statute, there was evidence that the North Korean regime had committed all but apart from apartheid. /Periscopi/