And those rabid ones in North Korea have their fun as well! I don;t normally like Wikipedia but in this case, the information is comprehensive anad acacurate:
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/All...xperimentation
"2004 BBC report
A BBC television programme on February 1, 2004 with the title, Access to Evil in the This World series [1] (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ld/3440771.stm) detailed other allegations.
In the programme, a former North Korean woman prisoner tells how 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given soaked cabbage leaves, which all the women had to eat despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 were dead after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat would allegedly have meant reprisals against them and their families.
Kwon Hyok, a former prison Head of Security at Camp 22, described laboratories equipped respectively for poison gas, suffocation gas and blood experiments, in which 3 or 4 people, normally a family, are the experimental subjects. After undergoing medical checks, the chambers are sealed and poison is injected through a tube, while scientists observe from above through glass. In a report reminiscent of the earlier account of a family of seven, Kwon Hyok claims to have watched one family of 2 parents, a son and a daughter die from suffocating gas, with the parents trying to save the children using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for as long as they had the strength.
An interview with Kim Sang Hun, described as a distinguished human rights activist, was also broadcast. Kim Sang Hun showed documents that he says were brought from Camp 22 by an escapee and which he is sure are not forgeries. These documents each say that a certain prisoner is to be transferred for experimentation with chemical weapons. A London based expert on Korea also considers it likely that the documents are genuine and Kwon Hyok stated independently that such documents were used at Camp 22.
Finally North Korea refuses access by any outside observers to Camp 22. This, in the opinion of the BBC, gives the clear impression that there is something to hide.
The BBC has been criticized by the Broadcasting Standards Commission in the past for broadcasting documentaries that were were considered unfair, and the report of the recent Hutton Enquiry also criticised the corporation (although many people in the UK disagree with the enquiry's conclusions). However, in the majority of cases BBC reporting is considered accurate."