North Korea is Murdering People With Disabilities North Korean Defector Says

drewdog2060drewdog2060 Post authorDecember 12, 2014 at 8:57 am

I think it is much easier to commit atrocities in totalitarian states where their exists no independent media and the populace are terrified to challenge the regime. In a society with democratic institutions such abuses would be picked up by the media, human rights organisations etc. There have been a number of cases of terrible cruelty perpetrated on the elderly and people with learning difficulties in the UK. Some of these have been picked up by the media and in another case relatives caught the abusers by employing a hidden camera. The abusers where taken to court, convicted and imprisoned. I know that China had (probably still does) a policy of sterilising people with certain genetic conditions, however, to the best of my knowledge there is no state sanctioned programme for killing people with disabilities. So, to answer your question North Korea is the only country of which I am aware (in the 21st century) in which it appears that the disabled are systemmatically abused (although the position of disabled people is extremely bad in other countries, for example I remember talking to a lady who worked for an African charity and her telling me how, in many villages the disabled are kept in cupboards due to the “shame” felt by their parents at having given birth to a disabled child).

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1. Let's CUT the Crap! December 12, 2014 at 3:17 pm
  
  Thank you for this information. Once again, I’ve learned something new. Isn’t the internet a wonderful tool?
2. drewdog2060drewdog2060 Post authorDecember 12, 2014 at 4:33 pm
  
  You are welcome. Yes the internet is a wonderful tool. Slightly off topic, it always amuses me when the internet gets blamed for society’s problems because it is, as you say a tool and, like a tool it can be used for good or bad purposes. We wouldn’t say a hammer is bad merely because a killer chooses to murder with it. Yet, when something happens which can be tied, however remotely to the internet the world wide web gets it with both barrels. For example someone meets a lunatic on internet dating, they meet in the real (off-line) world and he (or she) is harmed. The cry goes up “control” the internet and yet far more people meet lunatics (without the intervention of technology) than do so via it’s assistance.
3. Let's CUT the Crap! December 13, 2014 at 2:32 pm
  
  Yes, indeed. I have heard all those cries about the Internet as well. No matter what we come across in this world, someone is going to abuse it.
4. drewdog2060drewdog2060 Post authorDecember 13, 2014 at 3:51 pm
  
  I agree absolutely. Kevin