how are you feeling tonight? as a human rights investigator, of course i have always tried to work towards the innocent civilians who have been used by pawns like brings ner shoot. but to know one of the arms traffickers is ready to be deployed. he is what i call a weapon of mass destruction personified. he will be ready for putin to deploy him. that is heartbreaking for me. so you do, you call him a weapon of mass destruction personified. he was convicted and sent to a
chemical weapons, now all of a sudden we re hearing the possibility, that wait a minute, it could be the rebels. what are you hearing about that? well, the human rights investigator for the u.n. made this statement on swiss italian television. today the u.n. came out with this statement that was very short saying, hang on, this is not conclusive. it sounded as though the u.n. was taken aback, surprised by this statement. so there is some confusion at the u.n. that s the impression they re giving outside observers at this stage. what my administration sources tell me is the state department and the white house don t believe the syrian rebels have the capability to produce these weapons nor do they have them in their possession. these are complicated weapons that are complicated to deliver. the syrian weapons system doesn t have the ability to do that, probably. most likely scenario, it was the regime that used these occasions. i m told that fred pleitgen is in damascus. can you
revolutionary, the father and the grandsons would be opposed to the regime as well. david hawk is a human rights investigator who has interviewed dozens of former prisoners and guards from the six political prison camps operating in north korea today. the largest number of people in the prison camps are those who are the children or grandchildren of people considered to be wrongdoers or wrong thinkers. i never heard of anything like that. it s unique in the 20th or 21st century. mao didn t do it, stalin didn t do it. hitler of course tried to exterminate entire families but in the post world war ii world, it s only korea that had this practice. north korea denies it has any political prisons, but refuses to allow outside observers to inspect camp 14 and other sites. there s no way to verify all the details of shin s story. do you believe his story? oh, sure. his story is consistent with the testimony of other prisoners in
survive. so for 23 years, you were always hungry. translator: yes, of course. we were always hungry. and the guards always told us through hunger, you will repent. when shin and his family were repenting for probably dates back to the korean war, when two of his uncles reportedly defected to the south. shin believes that s why his father and grandfather were sent to camp 14 and why he was supposed to live there until he died. north korea s first dictator instituted this practice of three generations of punishment back in the 1950s. the idea is to eliminate this lineage, to eliminate the family on the theory that if the grandfather was a counterrevolutionary, the father and the grandsons would be opposed to the regime as well. david hawk is a human rights investigator who has interviewed