พี่คิม แห่งสถานทูตเกาหลีบอกว่า we can debate over this topic หนูไม่เถียงกะพี่หรอก เรี่องอย่างนี้ใครจะไปเถียงกันได้ ใครๆอ่านก็ต้องรู้สึกเหมือนกันว่าเรื่องแบบนี้มันไม่ควรเกิดขึ้น
วันแรกที่เข้ามาในคุกผู้คุมจะบอกนักโทษว่า you have to give up your rights as humanbeing คุณต้องสละสิทธิ์ความเป็นมนุษย์ของคุณ...
If we read this and feel nothing, and do nothing, we has already given up our rights as human being too. แต่เราก็ทำไรไม่ได้น่ะแหละ นอกจากมาเล่าต่อ อยากให้หนังสือเล่มนี้แจกจ่ายไปในวงกว้างกว่านี้จัง
'Are They Telling Us the Truth? - Brutality Beyond Belief'
Written by Hiroshi Kato, Sang Hun Kim, Yeo Sang Yoon, Tim Peters Published by LFNKR(Life Funds for North Korean Refugees) NKDB(Database Center for North Korean Human Rights)
26, February, 2004.
The following is the Foreword of this book written by Sang Hun Kim.
In recent years, there have been a number of credible international reports expressing grave concern with the human rights disaster in North Korea. However, little evidence has been available on the issue due to the strict controls on all information by the North Korean authorities.
However, since 1992, some North Korean who defected to South Korea began to inform us of shocking crimes against humanity perpetuated in North Korea for decades, massively and systematically. They include two former prisoners in one of the detention settlements for political prisoners(concentration camps), two former guards at several of these life detention settlements and a prisoner of one of the women's prisons in North Korea. Unfortunately, their witness accounts have been in Korean and failed to attract international attention. Attached is a summary and an analysis in English of their accounts for your consideration.
Surprisingly, their accounts, full of details, have so many incidents in common even though they were from entirely different social backgrounds and arrived in South Korea at different times. They did not know each other and were not aware of earlier allegations when they told us about what they have actually experienced or witnessed.
The information contained in this report is more than ten years old. However, several former prisoners from these camps have arrived in South Korea in recent years. We are convinced by their firsthand witness accounts, to be published soon, that the shocking practices of crimes against humanity in those camps have never changed.
It is my opinion that further evidence and information are required to verify their accounts. At the same time, however, the alleged atrocities appear to be of such serious nature, perhaps the worst crimes against humanity in the world today, that I call for a special international scrutiny to be immediatly organized in the name of humanity. Your kind attention and support will be greatly appreciated.
