Kato HIroshi runs a Japanese NGO that deals with North Korean refugees, and his group is active in trying aid those refugees here in CHina. He passed on the following story of a young girl sold into sexual slavery in Chia after getting out of North Korea. Note what he says about the pre Olympic crackdown, which jibes with reports from others:
Our organization, LFNKR, is receiving a flood of
new cries for help from desperate North Korean refugees
hiding in China, as Chinese authorities continue stepping
up their efforts to “clean out” NK refugees ahead of the
Beijing Olympics.At our board meeting last Sunday, we adopted plans to rescue
3 refugees from China. One of them, a 17-year-old girl, was
once under the protection of our group’s education
sponsorship plan. At the meeting, we circulated a snapshot
of the girl when she was 11 years old. The photo was taken
when she first came to LFNKR’s shelter in China.Later, her mother took her back to North Korea, then back to
China again. There, human traffickers seized the two and
sold them as “wives.” The girl spent the last two years as
a sexual slave. The story of those two years left us all
speechless.
Read Kim Chun Hwa’s story here.
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2007-06-slavery.htm
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