‘UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES’ REPORTED BY UN-MANDATED HUMAN RIGHTS INQUIRY ON DPR KOREA

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Date: 17 Sep 2013 12:00:01 -0400
Subject: 'UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES' REPORTED BY UN-MANDATED HUMAN RIGHTS
INQUIRY ON DPR KOREA
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'UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES' REPORTED BY UN-MANDATED HUMAN RIGHTS INQUIRY
ON DPR KOREANew York, Sep 17 2013 12:00PMThe head of the United
Nations-appointed inquiry into human rights violations in the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reported today that
testimony heard so far by his team pointed to widespread and serious
abuses, including abductions and torture, as well as "unspeakable
atrocities" in detention camps.

"What we have seen and heard so far – the specificity, detail and
shocking character of the personal testimony – appears without doubt
to demand follow-up action by the world community, and accountability
on the part of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," said
Michael Kirby, chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights
in the DPRK.

Providing an oral update on the commission's work to the UN Human
Rights Council in Geneva, Mr. Kirby said the testimonies received
during the recent public hearings in the Republic of Korea and Japan
indicated a large-scale pattern of abuse that may constitute
systematic and gross human rights violations in the DPRK.

According to a <"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/UnspeakableatrocitiesreportbyCoIinNorthKorea.aspx">news
release issued in Geneva, Mr. Kirby cited a host of alleged abuses,
ranging from abductions, torture and a policy of inter-generational
punishment to arbitrary detention in prison camps marked by deliberate
starvation and "unspeakable atrocities."

"We heard from ordinary people who faced torture and imprisonment for
doing nothing more than watching foreign soap operas or holding a
religious belief," he told the 47-member Human Rights Council, which
appointed the commission in March of this year.

"Women and men who exercised their human right to leave the DPRK and
were forcibly repatriated spoke about their experiences of torture,
sexual violence, inhumane treatment and arbitrary detention. Family
members of persons abducted from the Republic of Korea and Japan
described the agony they endured ever since the enforced disappearance
of their loved ones at the hands of agents of the DPRK."

The commission, which has a one-year mandate, is tasked with
investigating several alleged violations, including those concerning
the right to food and those associated with prison camps; torture and
inhuman treatment; arbitrary detention; discrimination; freedom of
expression, movement and religion; the right to life; and enforced
disappearances, including abductions of nationals to other countries.

The three-member commission has also stressed that it will investigate
to what extent any violations may amount to crimes against humanity.

"As the Human Rights Council requested us to do, we will focus our
inquiry on ensuring accountability, including with regard to potential
crimes against humanity," Mr. Kirby said. "We will seek to determine
which state institutions and officials carry responsibility for gross
human rights violations proved to have been committed."

Mr. Kirby also noted that the commission had invited DPRK authorities
to take part in the public hearings in Seoul, but received no reply.
Nor has Pyongyang allowed the commission entry into DPRK to carry out
its work.

"Instead," he said, "its official news agency attacked the testimony
we heard as 'slander' against the DPRK, put forward by 'human scum.'
Truth is always a defence against accusations of slander. If any of
the testimony on political prison camps, international abductions,
torture, starvation, inter-generational punishment and so forth can be
shown to be untrue, the commission invites the DPRK to produce
evidence to that effect."

The commission – which also includes Sonja Biserko, founder and
president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, and
Marzuki Darusman, former Attorney General of Indonesia and the current
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in DPRK – will
make its final report to the Human Rights Council next March.

Prior to that, it will continue its investigation, give an oral
briefing to the UN General Assembly in New York in October, and meet
with a number of experts, victims and officials with knowledge of the
situation in DPRK.Sep 17 2013 12:00PM
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