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Onsong concentration camp

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in May 1987 at the camp. According to the testimony of Ahn Myong-chol, a guard at a similar camp, and Mun Hyon-il, a nearby resident, the riot started when one political prisoner at the camp killed a guard in protest of the guard's treatment of another prisoner; he was then joined by 200 others at
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The camp was closed in 1989, a decision thought to be because of its proximity to the border with China. The prisoners were then transferred to
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the scene who overcame another guard. At the height of the riot, some 5,000 prisoners were openly in revolt.
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Reinforced from a second camp, guards proceeded to open fire on the rioters with
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