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The Commission concluded that the North Korean government was perpetrating "unspeakable atrocities" against its own people on a vast scale [46] [6] and committing "widespread, systematic and gross" [13] violations of human rights that amounted to crimes against humanity. The Chair of the Commission called these atrocities "strikingly similar ...
Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group or whole community for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member or some members of that group or area, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator, as well as entire cities and communities where the perpetrator(s ...
[citation needed] Like all forms of collective punishment, it was also intended as a dreadful deterrent for the worst crimes, rather than merely as a form of revenge. [ citation needed ] In ancient Korea, this punishment was applied during the reign of King Jinpyeong of Silla when conspirator Yi Chan-chil-suk (이찬칠숙) and his entire ...
The Brothers' Home (Korean: 형제복지원; RR: Hyungje Bokjiwon) was an internment camp (officially a welfare facility) located in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s and 1980s . The camp was home to some of the worst human rights abuses in South Korea during the period of social purification [ 2 ] and has been nicknamed "Korea's Auschwitz ...
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (Korean: 고위공직자범죄수사처; Hanja: 高位公職者犯罪搜査處; RR: Gowigongjikja beomjoesusacheo), or CIO in short, is an independent agency of the South Korean government responsible for prosecuting crimes and investigating allegations involving "high-ranking officials" or their direct family members.
Collective responsibility or collective guilt, is the responsibility of organizations, groups and societies. [1] [2] Collective responsibility in the form of collective punishment is often used as a disciplinary measure in closed institutions, e.g., boarding schools (punishing a whole class for the actions of one known or unknown pupil), military units, prisons (juvenile and adult ...
The National Petition to the Blue House, also known as the Online Petition to the Blue House [1] or succinctly as the National Petition (Korean: 국민청원), was a South Korean government website that was created as part of the Moon Jae-in administration's political communication effort to address citizen concerns in South Korea. The website ...
The International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK) was formed on September 8, 2011. It comprises Amnesty International , Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights and has support from over 40 organizations worldwide.