North Korea
Not entirely on topic, but it's been a while.
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North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis
North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated communist country.
In a report to the UN General Assembly, Vitit Muntarbhorn, a Thai law professor who has never been allowed to visit North Korea, said that its government is using public executions as a means of intimidating the population, and using spies to infiltrate and expose religious communities.
His report came two days after the World Food Programme said that two thirds of North Koreans do not have enough to eat, in the country’s worst crisis since as many as three million people died of famine a decade ago. ...
At what point does purposeful neglect become internationally qualifiable abuse?
Maybe when they begin actively abusing to defend the purposeful neglect?
There is something demonstrably different between targeting a single threat group and targeting a whole population simply because you can. I don't think we can make a value judgment on which is more heinous.
It's busy here.
North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis
North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated communist country.
In a report to the UN General Assembly, Vitit Muntarbhorn, a Thai law professor who has never been allowed to visit North Korea, said that its government is using public executions as a means of intimidating the population, and using spies to infiltrate and expose religious communities.
His report came two days after the World Food Programme said that two thirds of North Koreans do not have enough to eat, in the country’s worst crisis since as many as three million people died of famine a decade ago. ...
At what point does purposeful neglect become internationally qualifiable abuse?
Maybe when they begin actively abusing to defend the purposeful neglect?
There is something demonstrably different between targeting a single threat group and targeting a whole population simply because you can. I don't think we can make a value judgment on which is more heinous.