2023-06-08 01:45:57
The 2nd Committee for Truth and Reconciliation (Truth and Reconciliation) launched an investigation into 288 cases, including 237 cases of ‘human rights violations in the overseas adoption process’ and 3 cases of ‘adolescent purification education’ at the 56th committee held the previous day (7th). announced on the 8th that it had decided to
The 237 people who applied for an investigation into ‘human rights violations in the overseas adoption process’ were adopted as infants or children in 11 countries, including the United States, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, from the 1960s to the 1990s. They applied for truth-finding, claiming that the adoption took place without the consent of their biological parents, and that the ‘right to know their identity’ of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was violated, such as changing or losing information regarding their original identities and birth families as the documents were manipulated as ‘orphans’. did. The Truth and Reconciliation Committee started investigating 34 cases on December 6 last year, and plans to investigate adoptees and related organizations in Copenhagen and other locations in mid-June.
The ‘Youth Purification Education Case’ is an incident in which middle and high school students were forcibly admitted to the Asan Chungmu Training Center and Gyeongju Hwarang Education Center in the first half of 1981, and to the Ganghwa Patriotic Education Center in 1983 and received military training and were assaulted by instructors. Investigate serious human rights violations, including violations of personal freedom.
In addition, a decision was made to initiate an investigation into the ‘case of sacrifice by hostile forces in Gochang, North Jeolla Province’, ‘case of victimization of civilians by military and police in Ulsan and Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province’, and ‘case of fishermen returning to North Korea’.
Jihye Han ([email protected])
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