Rights Activists Urge S Korea, China to Improve Treatment of N Korean Refugees
人权活动人士敦促韩中善待北韩难民
Rights activists are calling on South Korea and China to improve their treatment of North Korean refugees.
The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea issued a report Thursday urging China to stop treating the refugees as economic migrants.
The report says the North Koreans sent home from China face torture and imprisonment.
The rights group urges Beijing to honor its international obligations to refugees and to allow the establishment of temporary refugee resettlement camps and access to border areas by international relief agencies.
The group also expresses concern about what it considers South Korea's increasingly unwelcome and dismissive attitude towards the refugees. There are some 10 thousand North Koreans in the South.
The report is based on the results of a survey of some 13-hundred North Koreans hiding in China.
美国的北韩人权委员会星期四发表报告，敦促中国停止把北韩难民当作“经济移民”。
报告说，被遣返的北韩人会受到虐待和监禁。
这个人权组织还敦促北京履行对难民的国际责任，允许设立临时难民营，让国际救济机构前往边境地区。
这个组织认为，韩国对北韩难民越来越不欢迎，对他们不屑一顾，该组织对此表示关注。目前在韩国有大约一万名北韩人。
这个报告是根据对躲藏在中国的大约1300名北韩人的调查结果而撰写的。
