Sanitary & Privacy
There are no sense of privacy in camps. For instance, every bathroom have peek holes that the guards could look though. Each day, a bucket full of water are used as shower water for the entire camp. The situation got worse for women who still have their menstrual cycle. Female guards would use their worn undergarments as pads for female prisoners. The cloths are reused for the female prisoners and sometimes remains unwashed as they passed it to other females. Because of sanitary problems, all prisoners are infected with skin diseases and contacted lice in their hairs.
Food
The prisoners are feed with gruel made of cornmeal and cabbage, lacking the essential nutrients in their diet, such as protein and calcium. Many prisoner are more prone to diseases. As said by Ms. Kim Young Soon, “starving prisoners ate anything that “flew, crawled, or grew in the field...desperate mothers cut open pregnant rats to harvest their fetuses, roasting the tiny, hairless creatures, and feeding them to emaciated babies in the camp.” Cannibalism are present in the Yodok camp, when Ms. Kim Young Soon described incidents "when people, including a child, were taken, skinned and eaten by hungry prisoners."
Pregnant Women in Camps
Women being raped by guards are common. After being pregnant, they are accused from working in the State-Run projects. However, they are more subject to torture. One common torture is the Clock Torture, in which the guards command the pregnant women to to use her body as a tell telling machine until she was dehydrated. Sometimes, pregnant women are forced to drown their own babies in a bucket.
There are no sense of privacy in camps. For instance, every bathroom have peek holes that the guards could look though. Each day, a bucket full of water are used as shower water for the entire camp. The situation got worse for women who still have their menstrual cycle. Female guards would use their worn undergarments as pads for female prisoners. The cloths are reused for the female prisoners and sometimes remains unwashed as they passed it to other females. Because of sanitary problems, all prisoners are infected with skin diseases and contacted lice in their hairs.
Food
The prisoners are feed with gruel made of cornmeal and cabbage, lacking the essential nutrients in their diet, such as protein and calcium. Many prisoner are more prone to diseases. As said by Ms. Kim Young Soon, “starving prisoners ate anything that “flew, crawled, or grew in the field...desperate mothers cut open pregnant rats to harvest their fetuses, roasting the tiny, hairless creatures, and feeding them to emaciated babies in the camp.” Cannibalism are present in the Yodok camp, when Ms. Kim Young Soon described incidents "when people, including a child, were taken, skinned and eaten by hungry prisoners."
Pregnant Women in Camps
Women being raped by guards are common. After being pregnant, they are accused from working in the State-Run projects. However, they are more subject to torture. One common torture is the Clock Torture, in which the guards command the pregnant women to to use her body as a tell telling machine until she was dehydrated. Sometimes, pregnant women are forced to drown their own babies in a bucket.