North Korean prisoners watching foreign TV shows or soap operas were forced to drink water containing the dead inmates' ashes. The horrifying experience was shared by the prisoners who survived the living nightmare of the Chongori concentration camp.
The gulag is where North Koreans are locked up because of watching South Korean television shows.
"Every Monday, we burned the corpses... there's a place that looked like a house, and we piled the corpses in the round tank in it. The facility was drenched in the smell of blood and rotting or burning corpses," said one of the former prisoners.
"After burning the corpses, they stacked up ashes next to the cremation site. The ashes were used as a compost for farming," added the inmate.
Former North Korean prisoner found five disembodied toes
He said that the ashes flowed into the river when it is rainy. The prisoners drank the water from the river and used it to take a shower.
The former inmate added that on one occasion, they tripped disembodied toes in the river bed. He said that at first, he thought he was stuck on a tree. But, the inmate later found out that it was a toe.
The prisoner was surprised to find five toes in front of him after climbing the mountain and following the ash.
What is Chongori camp?
The Chongori concentration camp has a high mortality rate because of illness, injury, and physical or mental abuse. Survivors, who wanted to be anonymous to protect their identities, shared their horrifying experience in a new report published by the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK).
It was also revealed that the dead prisoners' bodies were piled in a storeroom before the cremation. Rats would partially eat the dead bodies before decaying. HRNK used satellite imagery to show the location of the prison buildings, forced-labor worksites, and crematorium.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon
