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Former Australian Judge Michael Kirby has condemned North Korea for human rights atrocities on a grand and sickening scale. A report follows:
GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- North Korea commits crimes against humanity, including "murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions," says a U.N. report released Monday. The report from Geneva, Switzerland, by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea called on the international community to act and get the International Criminal Court involved, the United Nations said in a release.
"The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world," the three-person commission said in the report on its 11-month inquiry.
"These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation," the report said.
"Crimes against humanity are ongoing in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea because the policies, institutions and patterns of impunity that lie at their heart remain in place."
The report included evidence provided by victims and witnesses, including the treatment of political prisoners, some saying they sometimes caught snakes and mice to feed malnourished babies while others told of witnessing family members being killed in prison camps.
"The fact that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... has for decades pursued policies involving crimes that shock the conscience of humanity raises questions about the inadequacy of the response of the international community," the report said. "The international community must accept its responsibility to protect the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from crimes against humanity, because the government of the DPRK has manifestly failed to do so."
The report said North Korea, which has rejected the inquiry as a "charade," showed attributes "of a totalitarian state."
"There is an almost complete denial of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as well as of the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, information and association," the report said.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/02/17/UN-report-tells-of-unspeakable-atrocities-in-North-Korea/UPI-50181392641667/#ixzz2tdF9IklO
And what will the United Nations Security Council do about this
Answer - Nothing because China sits on the Security Council and will be like the three wise monkeys, see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.
The United Nations is an absolutely useless organisation that has expansionist and power goals but when it comes down to it, is absolutely useless in doing anything whatsoever in regard to human rights abuses.
North Korea is just another example in a long, long line of Countries that have carried out abhorrent practices in human rights abuses whilst the U.N. looks the other way.
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