A United Nations panel warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he may be held accountable for orchestrating widespread crimes against civilians, ranging from executing and torturing prisoners to systematic abductions and starving mass populations.
The chairman of the panel, retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, drew a parallel between evidence of abuses in North Korea and atrocities committed during the Second World War.
The chairman of the panel, retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, drew a parallel between evidence of abuses in North Korea and atrocities committed during the Second World War.
Today the United Nations released a 374-page report detailing the scale of human suffering inside North Korea and the vast state apparatus the regime uses to control its people.
A former male inmate confirmed that the practice of burning the dead collectively and using their ashes as fertilizer carried on at Ordinary Prison Camp (kyohwaso) No. 12 was still ongoing when he was released in 2011. On one occasion, he was forced to bring a pile of bodies up the mountain and saw that rats had already gnawed of the flesh from their faces. The witness estimates that at least 800 prisoners died every year from malnourishment, infectious diseases and accidents at work.



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