Submission + - How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp (guardian.co.uk) 2
TheNextCorner writes: "Incredible to read this sad story:
"There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee
His first memory is an execution. Shin In Geun was four years old, too young to understand the speech that came before that killing.... ...The teacher ordered the girl to the front of the class and told her to kneel. Swinging his wooden pointer, he struck her on the head again and again. As Shin and his classmates watched in silence, lumps puffed up on her skull, blood leaked from her nose and she toppled over on to the concrete floor. Shin and his classmates carried her home. Later that night, she died...."
"There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee
His first memory is an execution. Shin In Geun was four years old, too young to understand the speech that came before that killing....