23 Jul Horrific Details About North Korea’s Firing Squads Have Been Released

Concern over human rights violations in North Korea continue to rank high on the international agenda, following reports in February that five senior security officials were executed with anti-aircraft guns because their reports “enraged” leader Kim Jong-un. This news was revealed by the National Intelligence Service, South Korea’s spy agency, in a private briefing to lawmakers as Malaysia investigated the death of Kim’s estranged elder half brother, Kim Jong-nam. South Korea has officially declared it as an assassination; Jong-nam (shown below in Geneva) was poisoned on February 13 at Kuala Lumpur airport.

A new report has further heightened these concerns by offering greater detail about North Korea’s suspected human rights violations and crimes against humanity. The Transitional Justice Working Group is a Seoul-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) founded by human rights advocates and researchers from five countries in 2014. It is the first Korea-based NGO focussed on transitional justice mechanisms in the world’s most oppressive regimes, including North Korea. This NGO released Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea: Mass Graves, Killing Sites and Documentary Evidence – a report which provides maps of suspected locations where several human rights abuses and cover-ups are reported to have taken place, including mass burials and shootings.

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