One woman who defected to South Korea says she has been forced into a new nightmare.
For the past year, two South Korean defense intelligence command officers have been repeatedly raping her, she alleges. The woman says the men also forced her to have two abortions. today that the defense ministry’s criminal investigation command requested an indictment by military prosecution at the end of November. The two officers are currently suspended while an investigation commences.
South Korean defense ministry spokeswoman Choi Hyun-soo said the officials “would be appropriately handled depending on the investigation results,” North Korean women are particularly vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse when they defect, activists say. “They’re not used to speaking out, being educated about sexual violence, and demanding their rights,” an activist from Human rights group Korea Future Initiative told BBC. “They don't know that when they are sexually assaulted it’s a crime and that people can be held accountable or be compensated.” the South Korean ministry of reunification—are also at risk for being trafficked into the sex trade in China.
Also, many women and girls may have already been sexually violated before leaving North Korea. With hundreds of thousands of citizens being reportedly being held in detention centers and government-run concentration camps, abuse and humiliation of all kinds is common. Defectors and that women are frequently raped by camp guards, forcibly given abortions, and killed or disappeared after rape and/or pregnancy.
“Captives of all genders and ages are given insufficient food and resources to live. Many brought or born into the gulags are at risk of dying from starvation, if not execution,”
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