faith, where they are systematically subjected to mistreatment such as unrestrained torture, mass-starvation and even imprisonment and death by asphyxiation in gas chambers. This means that 20% of North Korea's Christian community lives in concentration camps. The number of Christians who are being murdered for their faith seems to be increasing as time goes on because in 2013 the death toll was 1,200 and in 2014, this figure doubled, rendering it close to 2,400 murdered Christians. North Korea has earned the top spot 12 years in a row. Indochina region The establishment of French Indochina once led to a high Christian population. Regime changes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries led to increased persecutions of minority religious groups. The Center for Public Policy Analysis has claimed that killings, torture or imprisonment and the forced starvation of local groups are all common in parts of Vietnam and Laos. In more recent years it has stated that the persecution of Christians is increasing. See also Anti-Christian sentiment Criticism of Christianity :Category:Critics of Christianity Anti-Catholicism Anti-Mormonism Anti-Protestantism Persecution of Christians by Christians Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses Sectarian violence among Christians Christian martyrs Christian persecution complex Sign of contradiction Notes References Sources Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India. Rudolf C Heredia. Penguin Books. 2007. W.H.C. Frend, 1965. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church, Oxford, Blackwell, 1965 Let My People Go: The True Story of Present-Day Persecution and Slavery Cal. R. Bombay, Multnomah Publishers, 1998 Their Blood Cries Out Paul Marshall and Lela Gilbert, World Press, 1997. In the Lion's Den: Persecuted Christians and What the Western Church Can Do About It Nina Shea, Broadman & Holman, 1997. This Holy Seed: Faith, Hope and Love in the Early Churches of North Africa Robin Daniel, (Chester, Tamarisk Publications, 2010: from www.opaltrust.org) In the Shadow of the Cross: A Biblical Theology of Persecution and Discipleship Glenn M. Penner, Living Sacrifice Books, 2004 Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History by Robert Royal, Crossroad/Herder & Herder; (April 2000). Islam's Dark Side – The Orwellian State of Sudan, The Economist, 24 June 1995. Sharia and the IMF: Three Years of Revolution, SUDANOW, September 1992. Final Document of the Synod of the Catholic Diocese of Khartoum, 1991. [noting "oppression and persecution of Christians"] Human Rights Voice, published by the Sudan Human Rights Organization, Volume I, Issue 3, July/August 1992 [detailing forcible