More madness in North Korea.
This is an extremely disgusting article. You are warned.
We agree with the title: Serious consideration must be given to some kind of intervention in North Korea. We simply cannot stand by and let this happen. Would intervention be yet another example of US imperialism? According to Noam Chomsky, yes. Of course, notice how Noam is sitting in his warm flat in Boston - not in a glass gas chamber in NK. Also note that the source isn’t Donald Rumsfeld or Paul Wolfowitz - but the anti-American BBC.
Yad Vashem calls for UN intervention in N. Korea
Source: Haaretz Daily
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Authority on Tuesday called for an immediate United Nations investigation into reports that North Korea is using gas chambers to kill political dissidents.
According to a BBC report aired Sunday, the North Korean government is also testing new chemical weapons on women and children.
According to the report, the detainees are being held in 12 camps, and the largest of them, Prison Camp No. 22, is holding some 50,000 people. The total number of detainees is unknown, but according to estimates, their number could be as high as 200,000.
The BBC report quoted a former North Korean army intelligence officer who defected to South Korea in 1999, as saying that Prison Camp No. 22 had a gas chamber made of glass so scientists could observe inmates as they were gassed. "I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber," he told the BBC. "The parents, son and a daughter."
In a Letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev called for a full investigation of the reports, saying that ‘the chilling image of the murderers coolly watching their victims’ death agonies is all too reminiscent of Nazi barbarism."
Shalev’s letter also reminded Annan of his speech on January 26 at the Stockholm International Forum, in which Annan said the world must do more to prevent genocide from ever taking place again, and raised the possibility of having Genocide Convention states set up a Committee to Prevent Genocide. Shalev urged the UN to fulfill its obligation to protect human rights.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, A U.S.-based Jewish human rights group, also urged the UN on Tuesday to establish an international tribunal to investigate the allegations.
"This brings to mind the imagery of Nazi gas chambers and the horrific experiments at Auschwitz and Imperial Japan’s Unit 731," the center’s associate dean, Abraham Cooper, said in a statement.
"The crimes of the Nazi era are a stark reminder that silence is admittance and such state-sanctioned barbarities demand action," Cooper said. "The civilized community must put the perpetrators of such crimes against humanity on notice that they will be held accountable."
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