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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke

Saturday, January 10, 2004

NORTH KOREANS STILL FLEE DESPITE INCREASED SECURITY (RFA)
Desperation is driving North Koreans to make the increasingly hazardous journey across the border to China despite an intensifying crackdown on defectors in the border area, RFA's Korean service reports.

7:30:46 AM    

NORTH KOREAN WOMEN RAPED, SOLD IN CHINA (RFA)

Women who make the dangerous journey across the border from North Korea to China as defectors are routinely raped and even sold when they arrive, RFA's Korean service reports.


7:27:32 AM    

1 Corinthians 13:1-3. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. [English Standard Version Bible Daily Verse]
7:24:27 AM    

Doctors Without Borders Says North Korea's Extreme Repression Is 'One Of The Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories' Of 2003. Group List Underreported World Stories Barbara Borst Associated Press NEW YORK - A medical aid group said Friday that the American news media last year provided too little coverage of some world trouble spots, including the conflicts in Colombia, Chechnya and Congo. In its annual list of "underreported humanitarian stories," Medecins Sans Frontieres also cited a lack of media attention to the high death toll worldwide from malaria, the crises in North Korea and Somalia and the limited access of poor people to anti-AIDS medicines. "It's clearly a valid criticism when applied most broadly to the American media, but some of those conflicts such as the Congo and Colombia, we (The Washington Post) cover quite aggressively," The Washington Post's assistant... [Free North Korea!]
7:23:22 AM    

Medecins Sans Frontieres lists most 'under-reported' humanitarian stories. Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 10 2004 0:08AM ET [Moreover - Human rights news]
7:17:09 AM    

NEPAL: A young human rights defender was killed in Banke District [Asian Human Rights Commission website]
7:14:50 AM    

SRI LANKA: Brutal attack of the police on the people in Baddegama village in Madahapola who campaigned against crime [Asian Human Rights Commission website]
7:14:21 AM    

Beijing Leaders' Populist Touch Is Not Being Felt by Rural Poor. China's new leaders are finding that the Communist Party and government apparatus sometimes pay only lip service to their demands. By Joseph Kahn. [New York Times: International]
7:11:27 AM    

China Uses New Approach in SARS Fight. Last year, when what would become SARS first appeared, you couldn't pry information loose from China's secretive government. Now, as the virus edges back into the spotlight, the country's leadership has a different message: Operators are standing by. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
7:09:06 AM    





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