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N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity'

Posted by timothy on from the well-that-would-be-an-accurate-move dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this news from The Telegraph: "North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has been warned that he could face prosecution for crimes against humanity after a United Nations inquiry accused him of some of the worst human rights abuses since the Second World War. In some of the harshest criticism ever unleashed by the international community against the Pyongyang regime, a UN panel branded it 'a shock to the conscience of humanity.' Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who has spent nearly a year taking testimony from victims of the regime, said much of it reminded him of atrocities perpetrated by Nazi Germany and Pol Pot's Cambodia. Yesterday his team published a 374-page report detailing allegations of murder, torture, rape, abductions, enslavement, and starvation, describing North Korea as a dictatorship 'that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.' In a bid to put pressure on Kim Jong-un, 31, Mr Kirby has taken the unusual step of writing to the North Korean leader to warn him that both he and hundreds of his henchmen could one day face prosecution." More at the BBC, including a cache of the report.

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  1. first by doti · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    da!

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    1. Re:first by cheesybagel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Dude. Saudi Arabia applies Sharia as the rule of law. People get stoned for being unfaithful and thieves get their hands cut off.

  2. Elephant in the room by gmuslera · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When will be US turn? Basically stripping the entire mankind of a basic human right according with the UN should worth something. Droning thousands of people in a lot of countries, including schools, weddings, funerals, rescuers or just being close enough to the wrong phone should be pretty bad too. And kidnapping, jailing, and torturing people (even minors) in Guantanamo is worth mentioning too. And i bet that that don't even qualifies as the tip of the iceberg.

  3. Throwing stones by jodido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let the country without sin cast the first stone. US? Can you spell Guantanamo, napalm? UK? Ask Gandhi. Etc.