General ‘treated soldiers like slaves’

A general and his wife treated soldiers like “slaves”, forcing them to retrieve golf balls and pick up toenail clippings, a rights group alleged, prompting officials to launch a probe on Wednesday. Soldiers assigned to the home of four-star General Park Chanju and his wife “did the laundry, ironing, gardening, cleaning bathrooms, picking up every little trash — even pieces of toenails or dead skin cells”, the Center for Military Human Rights Korea said in a statement. ince of Mugla on Wednesday, an official said. The boat, named was carrying 11 people when it sank off the Marmaris district of Mugla, a popular tourist area, the official said. Eight passengers have so far been rescued.