neljapäev, 12. august 2010
Ela päev korraga
Ela päev korraga. Sellist vahvat soovitust armastatkse ikka anda inimestele, kes kipuvad liigselt muretsema asjade pärast, mis neist eriti ei sõltu. Ise elan ka päev korraga ja tõsti iga konkreetne päev on viimasel ajal olnud tore ja ilus. Eriti sellisel ilusal suvel. Samas on mul julmalt kõrini "päev korraga" elukorraldusest, mis on enese töiseid ja viimasel ajal ka mittetöiseid tegevusi viimaste aastate jooksul iseloomustanud. See teeb nimelt võimatuks igasuguse pikema planeerimise, kuna igale konkreetsele kvartalile järgneva cash flow suhtes valitseb totaalne teadmatus. Inimesed, kel mõistlik äri- ja töökeskkond ümberringi tunduvad kui tulnukad teiselt planeedilt. Muidugi saadav karastus on hea, aga tõtt öelda mulle sellest juba piisab. Elage, jah, aastaid järjest päev (või siis kvartal) korraga ja vaadake, kas ikka meeldib. Mulle näiteks ei meeldi.
kolmapäev, 11. august 2010
Vahva riik Põhja-Korea
Väljavõtteid tekstidest:
"FIFA president Sepp Blatter teatas, et Rahvusvaheline Jalgpalliliit on algatanud uurimise, et välja selgitada, kas Põhja-Korea mängijad ja treenerit piinati pärast MMi kodumaal."
"Teada on, et Põhja-Korea koondise peatreener Jong-Hun Kim saadeti ebaõnnestunud MMi järel sunnitööle."
"There was an unconfirmed report that these players have gone through torture or something like that, but I can't confirm that" (see lause käis siis jalgpallurite kohta).
Ja no nii üldist:
North Korea runs at least five large political prison camps, together holding an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 inmates, according to the U.S. State Department. The gulags remain one of the Stalinist regime's most effective means of controlling its 23 million people, analysts say.
"With regard to the substantive issues of human rights as a whole, the pictures are still sadly very negative on many fronts," Vitit Muntarbhorn said.
South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Hyong-o, in written remarks to the forum, also said "severe outrages against humanity" such as executions and vivisection are reported to have frequently occurred in the North's prison camps.
Satellite images show the camps in valleys tucked between mountain ranges, each covering up to 100 square miles. Former prisoners say the camps are encircled by high-voltage electrified fences and have schools, barracks and work sites.
Offenses meriting banishment to a prison camp include everything from disparaging North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to trying to flee the country, defectors say.
Former prisoner Jung said he spent three years in Camp No. 15 in Yodok, about 70 miles northeast of the capital, Pyongyang, on charges of spying for South Korea.
Jung, who was working for a state-run trading company, claims the charges were fabricated by security agents seeking promotion. After months of torture, Jung said he acknowledged the charge. By then he had lost nearly 80 pounds.
Shortly after his release, he fled to South Korea in 2004 with his wife and two daughters and now works for a civic group on North Korean prisons.
At Yodok, Jung said, the 400 inmates in his section subsisted on 20 ounces of corn each — the equivalent of one medium-size can daily — while toiling at mines, farms and factories for 13 to 15 hours a day. Many died of hunger and diseases brought on by malnutrition, he said. Some managed to trap vermin and insects.
"People eat rats and snakes. They were the best food to recover our health," said Jung, 46, adding he still suffers from ulcers, headaches and back pain.
One inmate, Choe Kwang Ho, sneaked away from his work for 15 minutes to pick fruit. He was executed, his mouth stuffed with gravel to prevent him from protesting, Jung recalled.
"I still can't forget his emotionless face," he said.
Life at the four other camps was even worse, Jung said. A former North Korean prison guard said only two inmates have ever escaped from the camps known as "total control zones."
"Inmates there don't even have time to try to catch and eat rats," An Myeong-chul said in an interview in Seoul.
An said he served as a guard and driver at four camps before defecting in 1994. If a female inmate got pregnant, he said, she and her lover would be shot to death publicly. Then, An said, prison guards would cut open her womb, remove the fetus and bury it or feed it to guard dogs.
Forced abortions are common, and if babies are born, many are killed, sometimes before the mother's eyes, defectors say. Grandparents also may be punished since whole families are imprisoned.
"We were repeatedly taught they were the national traitors and we have to eradicate three generations of their families," he said.
An, 40, defected after his father, a former Workers' Party official, killed himself after being accused of criticizing the government food rationing system as inefficient. Now working at a bank in South Korea, An said he pushes for the abolishment of North Korea's prison camps as the least he can do to offset his work as a guard.
Public executions are not limited to the gulags.
Before he was imprisoned, Jung took his eldest daughter, then 8, to the execution of a prisoner in 1997 in the city of Chongjin. She watched solemnly as the inmate's skull was smashed to pieces.
"She asked me, 'Hey Daddy, is he vomiting?"' Jung recalled, a bitter grimace curling his lips. "I should not have taken her there."
ens of thousands of political prisoners face starvation, torture and summary execution in prison camps in North Korea, according to the testimony of a prisoner to a United States Senate inquiry.
In a detailed, often harrowing first-hand description of conditions inside Kaechon camp and other detention centres run by the communist regime, Soon Ok Lee told the inquiry of apparent biological and chemical weapons experiments on prisoners.
She said she had witnessed numerous other atrocities, including the murder of newborn babies by guards and doctors.
"While I was there, three women delivered babies on the cement floor without blankets," Ms Soon told a Senate judiciary subcommittee chaired by Democrat Edward Kennedy.
"It was horrible to watch the prison doctor kicking the pregnant women with his boots. When a baby was born, the doctor shouted, 'Kill it quickly. How can a criminal expect to have a baby? Kill it.'
"The women covered their faces with their hands and wept. Even though the deliveries were forced by injection, the babies were still alive when born. The prisoner-nurses, with trembling hands, squeezed the babies' necks to kill them."
Ms Soon, who was first arrested in 1984, said she was tortured in pre-trial interrogation before being sentenced to 13 years jail for crimes against the state.
She said she had managed to survive in the camp only because, with a background as an accountant, she had been given work keeping the camp's records. She was released in an amnesty in 1992 and escaped to South Korea in 1995.
Despite the time that has elapsed since the alleged events took place, international human rights organisations and independent Korean groups say executions, torture and other serious abuses continue in the camps.
The total number of prisoners held in the North Korean gulag is not known, but one estimate puts it at about 200,000, held in 12 or more centres.
A source on the Democrat-controlled judiciary committee said the location of many camps had been identified and there were plans to publish satellite photographs of them.
Amnesty International's latest annual report says North Korea continues to refuse access to independent observers, while executions for political offences are continuing and freedom of religion is severely restricted.
The UN Human Rights Committee and the EU expressed serious concerns to Pyongyang about human rights last year.
Senator Sam Brownback, who sits on the judiciary subcommittee, said: "North Korea is today's 'killing field', where millions of people considered politically hostile or agitators ... starve to death while those in power enjoy luxurious lifestyles."
Ms Soon told Congress that prison inmates were frequently tortured and were used as targets when guards practised martial arts skills.
There were also frequent public executions at Kaechon of "anti-party elements" and "reactionaries". It was not unusual for prisoners to be driven to suicide.
Ms Soon said that the estimated 6000 prisoners in the jail when she was first incarcerated had nearly all died when she was released five years later.
There are no direct means of verifying Ms Soon's testimony. But a judiciary committee source in Washington said her account gave an accurate picture.
"What she said is confirmed by several other independent groups," the source said.
"FIFA president Sepp Blatter teatas, et Rahvusvaheline Jalgpalliliit on algatanud uurimise, et välja selgitada, kas Põhja-Korea mängijad ja treenerit piinati pärast MMi kodumaal."
"Teada on, et Põhja-Korea koondise peatreener Jong-Hun Kim saadeti ebaõnnestunud MMi järel sunnitööle."
"There was an unconfirmed report that these players have gone through torture or something like that, but I can't confirm that" (see lause käis siis jalgpallurite kohta).
Ja no nii üldist:
North Korea runs at least five large political prison camps, together holding an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 inmates, according to the U.S. State Department. The gulags remain one of the Stalinist regime's most effective means of controlling its 23 million people, analysts say.
"With regard to the substantive issues of human rights as a whole, the pictures are still sadly very negative on many fronts," Vitit Muntarbhorn said.
South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Hyong-o, in written remarks to the forum, also said "severe outrages against humanity" such as executions and vivisection are reported to have frequently occurred in the North's prison camps.
Satellite images show the camps in valleys tucked between mountain ranges, each covering up to 100 square miles. Former prisoners say the camps are encircled by high-voltage electrified fences and have schools, barracks and work sites.
Offenses meriting banishment to a prison camp include everything from disparaging North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to trying to flee the country, defectors say.
Former prisoner Jung said he spent three years in Camp No. 15 in Yodok, about 70 miles northeast of the capital, Pyongyang, on charges of spying for South Korea.
Jung, who was working for a state-run trading company, claims the charges were fabricated by security agents seeking promotion. After months of torture, Jung said he acknowledged the charge. By then he had lost nearly 80 pounds.
Shortly after his release, he fled to South Korea in 2004 with his wife and two daughters and now works for a civic group on North Korean prisons.
At Yodok, Jung said, the 400 inmates in his section subsisted on 20 ounces of corn each — the equivalent of one medium-size can daily — while toiling at mines, farms and factories for 13 to 15 hours a day. Many died of hunger and diseases brought on by malnutrition, he said. Some managed to trap vermin and insects.
"People eat rats and snakes. They were the best food to recover our health," said Jung, 46, adding he still suffers from ulcers, headaches and back pain.
One inmate, Choe Kwang Ho, sneaked away from his work for 15 minutes to pick fruit. He was executed, his mouth stuffed with gravel to prevent him from protesting, Jung recalled.
"I still can't forget his emotionless face," he said.
Life at the four other camps was even worse, Jung said. A former North Korean prison guard said only two inmates have ever escaped from the camps known as "total control zones."
"Inmates there don't even have time to try to catch and eat rats," An Myeong-chul said in an interview in Seoul.
An said he served as a guard and driver at four camps before defecting in 1994. If a female inmate got pregnant, he said, she and her lover would be shot to death publicly. Then, An said, prison guards would cut open her womb, remove the fetus and bury it or feed it to guard dogs.
Forced abortions are common, and if babies are born, many are killed, sometimes before the mother's eyes, defectors say. Grandparents also may be punished since whole families are imprisoned.
"We were repeatedly taught they were the national traitors and we have to eradicate three generations of their families," he said.
An, 40, defected after his father, a former Workers' Party official, killed himself after being accused of criticizing the government food rationing system as inefficient. Now working at a bank in South Korea, An said he pushes for the abolishment of North Korea's prison camps as the least he can do to offset his work as a guard.
Public executions are not limited to the gulags.
Before he was imprisoned, Jung took his eldest daughter, then 8, to the execution of a prisoner in 1997 in the city of Chongjin. She watched solemnly as the inmate's skull was smashed to pieces.
"She asked me, 'Hey Daddy, is he vomiting?"' Jung recalled, a bitter grimace curling his lips. "I should not have taken her there."
ens of thousands of political prisoners face starvation, torture and summary execution in prison camps in North Korea, according to the testimony of a prisoner to a United States Senate inquiry.
In a detailed, often harrowing first-hand description of conditions inside Kaechon camp and other detention centres run by the communist regime, Soon Ok Lee told the inquiry of apparent biological and chemical weapons experiments on prisoners.
She said she had witnessed numerous other atrocities, including the murder of newborn babies by guards and doctors.
"While I was there, three women delivered babies on the cement floor without blankets," Ms Soon told a Senate judiciary subcommittee chaired by Democrat Edward Kennedy.
"It was horrible to watch the prison doctor kicking the pregnant women with his boots. When a baby was born, the doctor shouted, 'Kill it quickly. How can a criminal expect to have a baby? Kill it.'
"The women covered their faces with their hands and wept. Even though the deliveries were forced by injection, the babies were still alive when born. The prisoner-nurses, with trembling hands, squeezed the babies' necks to kill them."
Ms Soon, who was first arrested in 1984, said she was tortured in pre-trial interrogation before being sentenced to 13 years jail for crimes against the state.
She said she had managed to survive in the camp only because, with a background as an accountant, she had been given work keeping the camp's records. She was released in an amnesty in 1992 and escaped to South Korea in 1995.
Despite the time that has elapsed since the alleged events took place, international human rights organisations and independent Korean groups say executions, torture and other serious abuses continue in the camps.
The total number of prisoners held in the North Korean gulag is not known, but one estimate puts it at about 200,000, held in 12 or more centres.
A source on the Democrat-controlled judiciary committee said the location of many camps had been identified and there were plans to publish satellite photographs of them.
Amnesty International's latest annual report says North Korea continues to refuse access to independent observers, while executions for political offences are continuing and freedom of religion is severely restricted.
The UN Human Rights Committee and the EU expressed serious concerns to Pyongyang about human rights last year.
Senator Sam Brownback, who sits on the judiciary subcommittee, said: "North Korea is today's 'killing field', where millions of people considered politically hostile or agitators ... starve to death while those in power enjoy luxurious lifestyles."
Ms Soon told Congress that prison inmates were frequently tortured and were used as targets when guards practised martial arts skills.
There were also frequent public executions at Kaechon of "anti-party elements" and "reactionaries". It was not unusual for prisoners to be driven to suicide.
Ms Soon said that the estimated 6000 prisoners in the jail when she was first incarcerated had nearly all died when she was released five years later.
There are no direct means of verifying Ms Soon's testimony. But a judiciary committee source in Washington said her account gave an accurate picture.
"What she said is confirmed by several other independent groups," the source said.
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