Hoeryong concentration camp
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Camp 22 is a North Korean prison for political prisoners. It is located in north-east North Korea, on the border with Russia and China, 20 km from the city of Hoeryong.
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[edit] Overview
There are an estimated 50,000 prisoners held in Camp 22. Most have been imprisoned because relatives were critical of the Korean Workers' Party or its General Secretary Kim Jong-il. Analysis of satellite imagery suggests that the camp is surrounded by guarded fences, and that it covers an area estimated to be as large as Washington, D.C.
[edit] Alleged abuse
There have been numerous reports of human rights abuses at Camp 22. There have even been accounts of chemical experimentation on prisoners using a glass gas chamber for observation. Some accounts have even been attributed to a former chief of management at Camp 22, Kwon Hyuk.
[edit] See also
- Yodok concentration camp
- Alleged North Korean human experimentation
- Human rights in North Korea
- Google Earth Tour of Camp 22 with witness accounts of how prisoners are treated there
[edit] References
- Antony Barnett The Observer Sunday February 1, 2004
- "Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag" - Guardian Unlimited (UK)
- Satellite Photos of Camp 22 - Human Rights Without Frontiers - accessed 27 Dec 2006
- Accounts of Labor Camps - Human Rights Watch
- Global Security article
- North Korean prison guard remembers atrocities - Ahn Myong Chol in MSNBC, 2003
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