is this a syrian Death Camp ?

[RainbowUnicorn]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39926914

from what is starting to be posted in the media it sounds like one.

horrific details coming out now.

[C C]

Functional equivalent of gulag and the latter's results, maybe.

While it's not the dark fruit of an internment situation, Sudan and South Sudan have been racking up some numbers with their ethnic conflicts. Tens of thousands killed and 3.5 million displaced since late 2013.

Back to the Middle East... If it was was a dart board, I guess one out of every three sticks would land on some ongoing, sanguinary mess. Yemen, Libya, etc just don't receive as much attention as Syria.

In terms of camps, the Juche goosestepping in East Asia is surely holding the lead, though.

While North Korea denies the system of so-called kwanliso secret prison camps even exists, the report says testimony from survivors and guards, coupled with satellite imagery, makes for overwhelming evidence. It estimates that between 80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners are still held in the camps, many "disappeared", meaning their families never know where they have gone or what happens to them in the future, even if they die in detention. [...] It describes a brutal and inhuman regime in the camps, with systematic torture, executions, rape and "the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide". In such ways, it concludes, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have died in the camps over the decades. [...] North Korea suffered appalling famines in the 1990s, in part due to natural conditions but also due to state mismanagement. Estimates of the death toll range from just over 200,000 to more than 3 million. The report concludes, however, that even within this situation North Korea's state has used access to food as a way to control the population, giving access to supplies to citizens seen as important rather than "those deemed expendable". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/f...man-rights

[RainbowUnicorn]

Functional equivalent of gulag and the latter's results, maybe.

While it's not the dark fruit of an internment situation, Sudan and South Sudan have been racking up some numbers with their ethnic conflicts. Tens of thousands killed and 3.5 million  displaced since late 2013.

Back to the Middle East... If it was was a dart board, I guess one out of every three sticks would land on some ongoing, sanguinary mess. Yemen, Libya, etc just don't receive as much attention as Syria.

In terms of camps, the Juche goosestepping in East Asia is surely holding the lead, though.

While North Korea denies the system of so-called kwanliso secret prison camps even exists, the report says testimony from survivors and guards, coupled with satellite imagery, makes for overwhelming evidence. It estimates that between 80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners are still held in the camps, many "disappeared", meaning their families never know where they have gone or what happens to them in the future, even if they die in detention. [...] It describes a brutal and inhuman regime in the camps, with systematic torture, executions, rape and "the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide". In such ways, it concludes, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have died in the camps over the decades. [...] North Korea suffered appalling famines in the 1990s, in part due to natural conditions but also due to state mismanagement. Estimates of the death toll range from just over 200,000 to more than 3 million. The report concludes, however, that even within this situation North Korea's state has used access to food as a way to control the population, giving access to supplies to citizens seen as important rather than "those deemed expendable". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/f...man-rights

indeed

30,000+ per year in the usa by gun violence (10,000 homicide 20,000 suicide[or so it is reported as])
1095+    per year in the usa shot dead by police
15,000+ per year in the usa by prescription opiods
32,000+ per year in the usa by motor vehicle (including roughly 18,000 per year in the usa who died because they choose not to wear a seatbelt)

it appears civilised culture is not soo civilised.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/07/health...eath-rate/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violen...ted_States   100,000 shot each year
official CDC figures below
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm


its a mad world