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Transcripts For ALJAZ 101 East Escaping Koreas Pacific Cult 20240712

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Official results show guineas president alpha conde winning a 3rd term with a landslide victory since sundays election at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others injured when Security Forces fired at supporters of opposition president ial candidate. He says he has evidence of fraud and will contest the result. Because parliament has overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the constitution expanding the president s powers closer by rajapaksa will now be able to dissolve parliament before its term finishes and house full immunity from prosecution critics say the legislation will impose autocratic rule. Up next is what i want east escaping career specific cult investigating a secretive korean cult in fiji and a fathers attempt to rescue his son. I want you to know our nation is going to defeat this said terrible china virus as we call it there is no place for hate in america well im feeling great out of about your worry mask is not a political statement its a scientific recommendation in the final president ial debate live on aljazeera. With its beautiful sandy beaches clear blue waters and lush green surrounds fiji is a tropical paradise. Hot on the man either that he will feel not to shut up. But for some it quickly became a kind of hell. I knew as soon as i like stepped foot it was just not normal that she feels doesnt need to woods in the country kids one no one east investigates a secret of a cult and joins a father on his desperate bid to rescue his son. That will night out with friends in downtown salt and something sissy to meet longer takes for granted. But its a reminder of how close she came to losing her freedom to a mysterious religious sect this church is an evil organization its a cult and i dont want anyone else to go through what i did i have lost everything it was. Harrowing. It all started in 2011 after her father died of cancer and her mother era giong joined grace road church this all kind of spiraled when my dad passed really my mother just if lost it i was only 13 i didnt really know how to take care of my mother i was. Like so heartbroken over my father that. This would have happened if. One you know cecilias mother became captivated by the sermons of. The charismatic founder of the church who you gonna more than even if 100. 00 lashes out some covered. Under. The one rung of the pack. My mother was just kind of saying a lot of weird things like. Doctors implanting like things into. Chips microchips that are chips. And like was hurt people lizard people like just a lot of conspiracy theories she kept talking about revelations like the end of the world. Germs day. In preparation for doomsday should knock you decided to move her chosen followers to the South Pacific island of fiji. And 2014 cecilias mother and now its she wanted to move there too we made a deal we made a promise that i would go with her. To help her settle it. And i would stay there for 2 weeks. Her mother and the rest of her family were among the 1st of more than 400 grace road followers to move to fiji. While she was there celia witnessed some of juice or milk. What was there that i could see it was weird. Not my cup of tea a lot of wheeling a lot of shouting she would. Verbally abuse a lot of people are going to call their names. Awful names like what i think liar. Or things like that. Which is not normal for a Church Service obviously and i was. Taken aback. When it came time for cecilia to leave Church Members tried to convince her to stay but she refused she couldnt wait to get home i actually started packing like the day before and when i went. You know pack my computer my laptop it was gone i realized my passport was gone that when you started to panic. Yeah panicking a lot i was screaming for help. To celia ran onto the road flag down a passing police car and fled to the korean embassy. Officials issued her emergency passport she managed to fly back to school even after her mother cancelled her original plane ticket what happened when you came back to korea so when i was in fiji the whole time i didnt realize this but my mother saw everything. No money. No house my entire family houses so i had literally no where to go. With the help of friends cecilia slowly began rebuilding her life in south korea she started a go fund me page to raise money to start over. But she soon became a target for online vitriol from Church Members including her own mother. I do not think of her as my daughter any longer she who does not listen. To my wants and goes against god doesnt make it feel to me this. I mean theres words. And i dont know me and im much happier without the middle part of life. Cecilia has not spoken to her mother in years and if that make you feel to lose your mother to a cult i realize shes a lost cause but i just wasnt healthy for me to keep ty side just let her go its its no use keeping in touch with her. Cecilia isnt the only one to lose a loved one to grace wrote. About 4 hours from saul on a farm near the studio daegu lee youd say is starting over after escaping fiji with his family. Like cecilias mother he was also caught in the thrall of jews preaching more at the border than you did or singing a surrogate album on his. Own. But he says he became disillusioned after witnessing the abuse of other followers in fiji he decided to escape with his wife and youngest son but his eldest son john one is still in fiji and the fuses to leave. Them on which i sure was out of because he went on and on global. Clear warm. Air. Other to get on a. Good touch somehow that someday im on the up. Because of how badly it will go to an awesome joke and calling cards little. Before you can see and his family went to the Promised Land they were told to sell all their belongings and give the proceeds to the church but there was one final rite of passage. About the threshing ritual. To cure the market attrition me being to run. 100 had on me. And the other didnt go. In all this you and. Couldnt get on the roll. But. Just on in the. Morning on his return has been described by others. They say followers are asked to take turns peddling each other often violently. Sometimes children also my. Own mother pushing them in on me when i didnt want to be so you know getting to know getting on. Poking around in the. Hunting arms and now many. Former members a jew told her followers not to seek medical treatment. In at least 2 cases cult members with Serious Health conditions requiring dialysis did not receive the lifesaving procedure. It is on. To ones are committed to doing so. Was the hunger she could be the cruel cannot get a. Good title when it than isnt. The were going to run it under. Those and the University Professor tara g. Ill has been studying cults for 30 years he says grace wrote church has all the hallmarks of one. Song. Has over us when i grow corn honey tag on to chores or call door peter. Saw symbol to look at overall to each over kill or. Saw so it touched on mothering it out 100. 00. Questions of those who were. His scimitar. Professor tarc believes the social pressures and the countrys struggling economy makes koreans susceptible to cults even although more. Couldnt manage. Or. Old or young or quick or event you dont dont. Get you or. To progress. Man could. You. He says authorities should intervene to stop groups like grace road and support people who escape today the professor is meeting to find out more about his experiences some ones you can see no joy with. The Young Children just you know. College and up the hudson or honduras as we see or. Hear. Them out. In the wind chill through. The configuration. He went to the. Gentleman. To do im gaining how you think. Back on his farm those worries weigh heavily on you and say that hes determined to try and bring his son home. He would imagine one solitary one. Month theres just no. 1 oclock to do all the heartache. And i dont know how to. Get out of one of our on the way that i dont know how hard do you think youll convince him to come back with you. And then that would have been on what i need to do. When you know. I would you dont have to pick on me she was sure we see anybody. She she understood on a similar until tomorrow. After allegations of abuse both korean and Fijian Police investigated grace roach. And in july 28000 several members were arrested including its founder. Jill was convicted of fraud child abuse and assault among other charges despite this the Church Continues to operate here and teach. Grace road church now led by should do son daniel kim shows it sanctuary well. Its beautiful and peaceful. And its also clear when we arrive in fiji that its much more than a church. Its a big business. The grace road group owns dozens of restaurants here so long Hardware Stores and even a dental clinic. Its invested millions in the country but former members say its korean workforce is on paid. One. You dont run to the tongue. It almost. Doesnt go check. The group has mastered close ties with local politicians and has been awarded look creative government contracts including renovations and extensions to Government House and the Prime Ministers residence. And their ambitions may not end there 101 east has obtained exclusive footage of chanel 2 sermons which revealed the cults ultimate goal. She. Says. To move to this is good in the hes hired a transatlantic and of a. Korean salute to get. Chibi i was passive. So is this where the school was supposed to be built. This is a place. Where the riverland or. Greece will. Serve a nice. Is from the day you but tribe who live about an hour from fijis capital suva. The tribe or at least nearly a 100 acres of land to the church with an agreement that grace road would build a school on part of it but this hasnt happened instead its all been converted to farmland. Not transparent. The church claims to employ more than 200 feet. So everybody we are meeting tonight worked at grace road. Its what a right to know what worked as a welder for grace road. Late sister kitty litter worked at the churchs dairy farm. Both describe working conditions that do not comply with fijis labor laws how do you feel grace rolled treats its fijian staff you never know how they can. Some of the little honey. The whole of. A twat day says he saw a cult members being hit by their bosses. One day a 28. 00 fell off scaffolding after he said he was told to move it while he was standing on it he shattered his left thigh doctors inserted a metal breaks and told him it would take 2 years to recover which unless. You look. At the maybe a little bit enabling him you and. Me. The annoyance of. A twat day says grace wrote paid his medical bills and promised him compensation after he returned to work the pain became too unbearable to continue and he was fired hes been unable to find steady work since. Simeoni knuckle wall to sister. Died of a heart attack in her living quarters on grace rhodes farm he attributes her death to stress and physical exhaustion my only going to look at the look where i am up to my little 2 minute reaching to get. Going if you would. Under fijian law grace road should have provided her with transport. Memorial or one of them up in a. Short time. And they didnt do anything for her fear all they did. They didnt even send flowers. They say workers are scared to criticize grace road because of the churchs influence with the government. Company where. But the. Limo to me that you limit in. After repeated requests to various government offices and ministries including the attorney general and the Prime Minister no one from the fijian government was available to speak with Us Investment fiji the Agency Responsible for Foreign Investment said it was told not to speak about grace wrote. Leave a has arrived in fiji his 1st stop is the korean embassy. Mr lee hi hows it going. Like you see it. Unless im in damage and i look to. The embassy has helped several former cult members leafy cheek by providing emergency passports and safe passage to the airport but it doesnt always work out. But despite the embassies help this desperate mother was unable to rescue her daughter. What happened what are they saying. Goes over. The wall. So. Youre on your own. Grace road initially agree to an interview but they changed their minds and started ignoring our calls. Police. Believe. When we tried to film grace road petrol station. Thats under construction. A worker demands to know what were doing and calls head office for your war you know what i want to. Just here taking some pictures were allowed to take pictures from public property thats the law in fiji. Weve given you more than a month to respond to our interview requests. When we go to the dairy farm where simeoni to sister worked members demand we leave. The law. Right why were drawn up that was. Why we like. The way youre right that were doing a story on grace road and its businesses in fiji and so this is a business ok were just taking a. Wrong because you take it from the grace role if that were the case still the idea that you should ask for us. Is also being blocked by grace wrote the church tells him through the embassy that hell never be allowed on their property so we agree to record a message for him. Oh. Yeah. Because i wanted to. Get it will get done a. Little addition and. So that on. Trillion or so but in japan. So the. Literature has saw him the. Term will be a no go. No im not going to go i was little. Then when the. We visit grace road to deliver his message. Good morning sir. We thought wed try again to see if mr kim was here. And we just tried to want to deliver a message to. I wonder if hes here. Hes not here do you know when you might be back should we try again we just wanted to play a video for him. With. Us. So theres no way that we can get him we show this video to his son. Were just asking on behalf of the father. So. With no other way to contact you and say son were forced to leave. A is devastated. Before he heads to the airport he makes one last trip to the farm desperate to catch a glimpse of his son. Into also other were boarded on some local more than and. Other wood on the board. For a ticket on downing to see him on me until. How he didnt. Turn up at all how moved it was and on the. Other day that she and all us and turn on. Each edge again one isnt because he didnt go because he saw an out of the middle. And he vows hell keep fighting to protect others from what his familys been through. Either you dont until you go and tell you to actually do all. Of the new. Washington lindsay orders and little so anything within. 2 years to them dont dont dont bother them is i see this will get done and dusted of all the middle. 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