Mixed Race Babies Killed in North Korea

As mass graves are being found in Iraq, the anti-war [read: hate Bush] crowd claims that the US presence in Iraq is violating the human rights of Iraqis. "Every day human misery expands in the drive for world Empire and corporate globalization." Their protests have also been harked by the major media and even a few Iraqi who benefited from Saddam's totalitarianism. To the people at International A.N.S.W.E.R. and MoveOn.org, life is worse under US control than that of Saddam Hussein. Well, folks, that's just too bad. It's a fait accompli, a done deal, the US is in Iraq and Saddam's not coming back.

But, wait, there is a hero comparable to Saddam who is still in power and, while he has power, Kim Jong-il could use your support to prevent the evil United States imperialists from taking his power from him. So it's time to act in unison in support of the communist North Korean regime. The anti-war focus should be directed toward the Korean peninsula to get the US out permanently.

The benefits for the anti-war movement would be great and not the least of which would be to avoid that pesky problem of finding mass graves and slave camps. In fact, it should be paramount on the minds of every protester to do what's necessary to make sure nobody finds the mass graves of babies that were killed because they were mixed-race (half-Chinese, half-Korean). This story from the Agence France-Presse explains:

North Korea kills the babies of pregnant women forcibly repatriated from China, according to a report released by a rights group Wednesday which details the brutal treatment of people who try to flee the last Stalinist bastion.

The camps where North Koreans sent back across the border are locked away justified the infanticide by the need to stop the birth of babies that might have Chinese fathers, according to harrowing witness accounts compiled by the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

Here's the UK Telegraph report from former prisoners:

One described how a guard took a baby away from a woman married to a Chinese and put him in a box nearby. A doctor then explained that since the country was short of food, it should not have to feed the children of foreign fathers. When the box was full of babies, it was taken away and buried, she said. It was not clear whether they were alive or dead at the time.

Right now, these stories are just words and there is no tangible evidence to show the press that such things occur. The last thing the anti-war crowd wants is to have to dispute an argument that's supported by undeniable facts. As one protester put it, "How can we complain about US atrocities in Iraq if they keep finding graves of thousands shot in the head?"

Easily. Or so it seems.

Hat tip to the Marmot for pointing me to this story.