Treatment of Women
According to former guard Ahn Myong-chol women are regularly beaten and raped, those who become pregnant are sent to a special part of the camps to be brutally executed, he describes the sight of stumbling upon this part of camp "There were many pregnant women's dead bodies lying on the ground, maggots crawling in them, the stench was unbearable, one woman had a grave digging shovel rammed up between her legs, the work of one of the camp guards. I tried to bury her, it was the least I could do." If a woman makes it to full term undiscovered they are forced to have abortions by injection, although some babies are simply killed at birth.