Word: evgenia
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...epilogue to Journey into the Whirlwind, her shattering memoir of life in the Soviet Gulag, Evgenia Ginzburg wrote: "Can such things just happen and be done with, unattended by retribution?" The prison camps in North Korea are the Gulag of the 21st century; in the past year, thanks mainly to the testimony of a number of former prisoners who have escaped to South Korea, the outside world has come to know much more about the grim conditions inside. In particular, a report authored last year by Hawk for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea meticulously pulled together...
...September, during which, he later said, the North Koreans admitted to the existence of reeducation-through-labor camps. The U.N. this summer named a special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea. In the case of North Korea, the world remains a long way from getting an answer to Evgenia Ginzburg's pointed question. But it has started asking...
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