| | The report on concentrations of inhumanity distinguishes
between commonplace human rights violations such as miscarriages of
justice, more serious “consistent patterns of gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights,” and human rights violations
that are so egregious that they rise to the level of “crimes against
humanity,” “war crimes,” or “genocide.”
It analyzes, according to the provisions of the international law
defining crimes against humanity, the unique phenomena of repression
associated with the core element of the North Korean gulag: the kwan-li-so
political penal labor encampments where as many as 200,000 persons,
including both suspected wrong-doers and wrong-thinkers, and up to
three generations of their family members, are imprisoned without trial
and subjected to forced labor under extremely severe conditions.
In the report, David Hawk calls for two immediate measures: 1) for the
international community to recognize the severe human rights abuses in
North Korea as crimes against humanity; and 2) for the North Korean
government to begin the measures necessary to bring the kwan-li-so
labor camps into compliance with international norms, and amend the
practices that run afoul of standards set forth by international law.
All information was taken from nkfreedomhouse.org. A full copy of the report can be obtained by the link below.
http://www.nkfreedomhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/concentrations-of-inhumanity-english.doc
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