China deports 5,000 N.Korea refugees a year

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China deports 5,000 N.Korea refugees a year

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AFP Seoul
China repatriates about 5,000 North Korean refugees each year even though they often face harsh punishment on their return, South Korean activists said Tuesday.
North Koreans who make the risky journey across the border into China only to be returned to their homeland face torture, imprisonment and even execution in extreme cases, the activists said.
"It is believed that the number of repatriated North Korean refugees reaches 5,000 per year," said Kim Suk-Woo, a former vice unification minister who now works for a rights group in Seoul.
At a forum on the issue he and other activists distributed a petition signed by 100 former South Korean ambassadors, calling on China to halt the repatriations which they say violate the refugee rights under international conventions.
China treats North Koreans as economic migrants rather than refugees.
More than 21,700 North Koreans have fled their impoverished homeland for South Korea since the 1950-1953 war, the vast majority in recent years. Almost all escape on foot to China, travel surreptitiously to Southeast Asia and then eventually seek resettlement in South Korea.
"The international community is not begging China for merciful treatment of the refugees, but asking her to duly abide by international laws and obligations," Kim said.
Many orphans born of North Korean refugees and Chinese fathers are in a "miserable" situation without proper care or basic education, he said. They are abandoned in the streets if their mothers are arrested and sent back, Kim said.
"Punishment back in North Korea is really harsh and beyond your imagination," said Lee Myung-Sook, a female refugee who settled in South Korea in late 2008 after escaping through Thailand.

 

[S10]

Good, these people are causing a strain on the social infrastructure near our border areas. A large number of them are petty criminals and large number of women work as prostitutes.

If you sneak in, don't complain about being thrown out.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

Hope India also deports lakhs of illegal bangaladeshis in Kolkatta

 

[twocents]

While it is not entirely baseless the story is full of half-truths and inaccuracies. The initial Chinese position was to let illegal North Korean immigrants quietly travel to South Korea through a third country. In an effort to score propaganda points against North Korea, South Korea decided that it wanted some drama. Instead of quietly helping their North Korean compatriots the South Koreans orchestrated a noisy breakin by a group of North Koreans into foreign embassies in Beijing. Consequently China asked South Korea to decide if it wanted drama or real help.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Hope India also deports lakhs of illegal bangaladeshis in Kolkatta

Fine go ahead... but where to deport in moon or mars.... as despite labeling the muslim Indian Bengalis as illegal Bangladeshi they will remain Indian muslim bengali... All radical hindu politicians and but jobs are fully aware of it... n try to create some smoke on illegal immigration during election and foolish and idiot people like you buy that.

 

[kawaraj]

I m wondering how many South Koreans deported each year?

My friend in Shangdong province said there are too many over-stayed South Koreans or with illegal entries in China too.