Inside North Korea’s Forced-Labor Program in China
www.newyorker.com
Workers sent from the country to Chinese factories describe enduring beatings and sexual abuse, having their wages taken by the state, and being told that if they try to escape they will be “killed without a trace.”

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9330778

[WARNING: This story contains details that may distress some readers.]

The workers, all of whom are women, described conditions of confinement and violence at the plants. Workers are held in compounds, sometimes behind barbed wire, under the watch of security agents. Many work gruelling shifts and get at most one day off a month. Several described being beaten by the managers sent by North Korea to watch them. “It was like prison for me,” one woman said. “At first, I almost vomited at how bad it was, and, just when I got used to it, the supervisors would tell us to shut up, and curse if we talked.” Many described enduring sexual assault at the hands of their managers. “They would say I’m fuckable and then suddenly grab my body and grope my breasts and put their dirty mouth on mine and be disgusting,” a woman who did product transport at a plant in the city of Dalian said.

Another, who worked at Jinhui, said, “The worst and saddest moment was when I was forced to have sexual relations when we were brought to a party with alcohol.” The workers described being kept at the factories against their will, and being threatened with severe punishment if they tried to escape. A woman who was at a factory called Dalian Haiqing Food for more than four years said, “It’s often emphasized that, if you are caught running away, you will be killed without a trace.”

[Edit typo.]

  • deft
    40·
    4 months ago

    China does this in other countries. There was a story of a Chinese funded factory with workers fleeing obvious security. And when I say workers I mean like 50+ people just scrambling into the street pursued by maybe twelve guys.

    Fuck China and fuck you tankies who pollute lemmy with your bullshit

    • Hyperreality@kbin.social
      91·
      4 months ago

      I wonder if they’ll turn up here. Probably too busy posting a hundred posts about the only conflict they pretend to care about because it allows them to win political arguments.

      • deft
        101·
        4 months ago

        or talk about how Tiananmen Square was actually a US operation to overthrow the government so running people over with tanks was okay or something ridiculous.

        That kid who posts Chinese propaganda everywhere literally says this.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      It actually kind of makes me mad when people claim that the US is somehow this terrible country. Its very much not perfect but at least I know I can get a job without discrimination.

      There was a article a while back about discrimination at Ticktok. Apparently one of the execs was told that she needed to be meek and quiet.