You just gotta love that after all these years of Amnesty International paying little more than lip service to the massive system of concentration camps in North Korea while at the same time promoting non-stop Gitmo campaigns is now coming out and trying to make it seem like they actually care about human rights in North Korea.  Here is the guy T. Kumar who has been all over the media claiming to be a North Korea human rights expert:

In this CNN interview he claims that Amnesty International has been conducting investigations of North Korean human rights abuses for the past two years.  I find that interesting because if you look on the Amnesty International website in their North Korea section in the two year period of 2007-2008 there was not one report about the human rights of North Korean defectors.  In fact the only article they had was in 2007 about two North Korean soldiers being executed by the regime.  For supposedly launching some investigation into the human rights of North Korean defectors for the past two years Amnesty International couldn’t produce one report to put on the North Korean section of their website.  The other reports they got on there are reports where North Korea is lumped in with other countries that have the death penalty for instance.

Now take a look at their South Korean section.  It is filled with reports every month condemning the South Korean government yet for North Korea we are lucky to see one North Korea specific report a year.  I am not even going to bother seeing how many Gitmo articles they have compared to articles about the concentration camp system in North Korea.  Go look at the site for yourself and it should be clear what a joke this organization is in regards to North Korean human rights. Finally don’t even get me started on Amnesty International’s plants in the military.

To make matters worse, in the CNN interview T. Kumar has the nerve to say that Amnesty International has been warning the international community not to be “complacent” on North Korean human rights.  Amnesty International is the one guilty for being complacent on human rights abuses in North Korea and now they are trying to make it look like they have  been warning the world all along what is going on in North Korea.  What joke.  If the media wants to get a real North Korean human rights expert they should give Dr. Norbert Vollertsen a call.   He may be a little goofy at times but at least he is an authentic North Korean human rights expert unlike these frauds at Amnesty International.  There are a variety of other experts out there as well like Dr. Andrei Lankov that are much better subject matter experts on North Korean human rights than Amnesty International.

Yet despite Amnesty International’s susposed concern for North Korean human rights, on the front page of their website they have nothing about North Korea and yet have their stupid Gitmo link.  Buried in their news section they do have a press release about the 12 year sentences given to the two journalists:

North Korea sentenced two US journalists to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour on Monday. The Central Court in Pyongyang convicted Laura Ling and Euna Lee of an unspecified “grave crime” against the nation. There are no appeals in the North Korean judicial system.

“These two foreign journalists were subjected to the failures and shortcomings of the North Korean judicial system: no access to lawyers, no due process, no transparency,” said Roseann Rife, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Deputy Director. “The North Korean judicial and penal systems are more instruments of suppression than of justice.”  [Amnesty.org]

Incredibly Amnesty International had more press releases and even conducted a special investigation against the South Korean government for last summers mad cow protests.  Does anyone think there will be any special investigation or “Wear Orange Days” organized by Amnesty International to publicize North Korean human rights violations?  Don’t get your hopes up because they cannot even give a front page link on their website for quite possibly the world’s greatest human rights violators, the North Korean regime.