They denounce the existence of mass graves in North Korea | Chronic

A human rights council has confirmed that it has identified a large number of places where, apparently, North Korea has carried out public executions and extrajudicial executions by the state as part of the process. an arbitrary and aggressive use of the death penalty, with the aim of intimidating its victims. the citizens.

The report of the Working Group on Transitional Justice (TJWG) was based on interviews with 610 North Korean deserters who, through their testimonies, helped find the 323 sites.

Although the group did not reveal the exact locations because it feared that this Asian country would modify them, it was found that 267 of these sites were located in two northeastern provinces close to the border with China. , the region from which most countries came from. deserters who participated.

"Public executions often take place in places such as banks or riverbeds, fields and open spaces, markets, hills / mountains, sports fields and school grounds", said the survey, entitled "Mapping the fate of the dead ("Cartography of the fate of the dead").

These brutal facts, used by the authorities to indoctrinate the population, are a subject frequently reported by the North Koreans who managed to leave the country.

Last week, information disseminated in South Korea profusely Kim Yong Chol, the North Korean leader responsible for the Hanoi summit, between the US president, Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim, Jong-unHe had been executed after being held responsible for the failure of the meeting in the Vietnamese capital. However, a few days later, the official was shown while he was attending a concert near the North Korean leader.

The Minister of Unification of South Korea, Kim Yeon-chul, had to go out and ask the media "Precaution" and "carefully inform" of the possibility that North Korea is purging officials of the regime because of the failure of the Hanoi summit.

The Working Group on Transitional Justice is a non-governmental organization founded by human rights defenders and researchers from South Korea and four other countries.