From the Telegraph:
By Mark Nicol 12:01AM BST 08 Jun 2003
Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following another poor harvest and a big cut in international food aid, according to refugees who have fled the stricken country.
Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that children have been killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for food. Requests by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be allowed access to "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be traded, have been turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".
Anyone caught selling human meat faces execution, but in a report compiled by the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund (NKRAF), one refugee said: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats for sale. People know where they came from, but they don't talk about it."
The NKRAF, an aid body set up in China five years ago which helps to smuggle food and medicines into parts of North Korea off-limits to WFP officials, interviewed 200 refugees for the report.
"If a funeral takes place during the day and the burial is performed that evening, the grave may be dug open and the body stolen before morning," said one refugee.
Another witness, named only as Lee, 54, said he feared that his missing grandsons, aged eight and 11, had been killed for food. As he searched widely for them, they boys' friends said they had vanished near a market.
Mr Lee said police who raided a nearby restaurant found body parts. The business's owners were shot.
4 comments:
"police who raided a nearby restaurant found body parts. The business's owners were shot."
Well, at least they believe in swift justice.
Always On Watch,
This is not anywhere near as shocking as you might think. There's been a famine going on in that country for decades and the people in charge of the regime care more about living in luxury than about the well being of the people. Kim Jun Ill doesn't care that much, if his people are starving to death as long as they worship him, and the same will probably be true for his successor as well. Communist dictators are among the most hypocritical people on the planet, especially North Korea's god king.
SOYLENT GREEN
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