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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. Re:first by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0, Troll

    Add to list of criminals "Saudi Arabia" and "Israel".

    Then? I might believe that this is generated by higher human considerations.

    Remember, when Governments and Billionaires urge you to care for the welfare and rights of others, far away and isolated? You are being set up for a con.

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  2. Re:first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    As much as we can criticize many regimes for their ill conduct, I have a hard time imagining that what the Saudis or Israelis do is anything close to the North Korean regime's abuses.

    So you are poorly informed AND you have a weak imagination.

    Are the rest of us supposed to be persuaded because YOU are a fool ?

  3. Re:first by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Troll

    And Saudi is a tacit Israeli partner. The paid thug. Who were the 9/1 hijackers?

    Do you actually believe they carried their own valid passports? This last point. Really? To think they carried ID beggars belief.

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  4. Re:first by Cigarra · · Score: 0, Troll

    What about US of A? Last time I checked, they invaded 2 countries in the last decade, causing more than 500k human deaths.

    When will the UN indict Bush, Blair and Cheney for that?

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  5. Re:first by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Troll

    The USA is currently the invader of over 100 countries, worldwide.

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