[net-gold] COUNTRIES: NORTH KOREA : HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: Why it's a Good Time to be a Dictator Like Kim Jong-Un
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COUNTRIES: NORTH KOREA :
HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS:
Why it's a good time to be a dictator like Kim Jong-Un
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Why it's a good time to be a dictator like Kim Jong-Un
Horrors like those detailed in the UN report into North Korea aren't enough to
get the world to do something. The response is shock, but then a collective
shrug
Jonathan Freedland
The Guardian
Tuesday 18 February 2014 05.38 EST
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/18/
north-korea-good-time-to-be-dictator
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/nulrxqd
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In the early 1990s, when I was in my infancy as a reporter, the dominant
international story was the war in the Balkans. Several of my peers made their
names covering that war and were deeply affected by it. What motivated at least
a few of them was not the desire simply to be on the front page or lead the
evening news, but a passionate urge to let the world know what was happening.
Several believed that, if only the world could see what they could see in
Bosnia, then it would act.
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Perhaps the authors of the latest UN report into human rights in North Korea
felt a similar motivation. They can be satisfied that, thanks to their 372-page
study, no one now can claim to be ignorant of the horrors committed in that
place. They are laid out in stomach-turning detail: the torture, the deliberate
starvation, the executions committed in a network of secret prison camps. The
individual cases break the heart: the seven-year-old girl beaten to death over
a few extra grains of food; the boy whose finger was chopped off for
accidentally dropping a sewing machine in the factory where he was forced to
work; and, most shocking of all, the mother forced to drown her just-born baby
in a bowl of water.
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The report's lead author, like those old journalistic colleagues of mine,
clearly hopes that now that the evidence is laid out, action will follow. "Now
the international community does know," says retired Australian judge Michael
Kirby. "There will be no excusing a failure of action because we didn't know.
It's too long now. The suffering and the tears of the people of North Korea
demand action."
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But how confident can Kirby be that action will follow? Any UN plan even a
referral of North Korea to the International Criminal Court would hit the
immediate obstacle of a Chinese veto in the security council. (China, after
all, is implicated in North Korea's horrors: when people somehow manage to
escape across the border, China's policy is to hand them straight back.)
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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