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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 ...
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 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 ...
[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 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.
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 ...
This is a partial list of government agencies of South Korea, under the executive branch. Ministries. Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (문화체육 ...
The peasantry suffered a lot both physically and mentally, became starving and homeless due to Korea War. Influenced by the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States both with their alliance in regards to communism and capitalism to a large extent, North Korea invaded the South, trying to unify the whole territory.