Seoul: South Koreatruth and conciliation commission The country’s previous military governments have been found responsible for the atrocities committed on Brothers HomeA state-funded stray facility where thousands of people were enslaved and abused from the 1960s to the 1980s.
The commission on Wednesday announced the preliminary results of its investigation into human rights violations at Brothers, including extreme cases of forced labour, violence and deaths.
The commission said it had so far confirmed 657 deaths at Brothers, more than the previously known tally of 513 between 1975 and 1986 recorded in the facility’s records.
It was also found that in the southern city of Busan, where the facility was located, police randomly grabbed people from the streets to send them to brothers, even if they had easily identifiable homes or families, and often was allowed Brothers The employees in the truck are kidnapping themselves.
The commission also said it found that the brothers run by the late owner Park In-kyun and his family had embezzled the salaries of thousands of prisoners who were forced into slavery.
So far, no one has been held responsible for the hundreds of deaths, rapes and beatings of the Brothers.
fight The commission’s chairman, Geun-sik, said its findings were based on an investigation into the cases of 191 individuals, who were among the 544 brothers who have filed applications so far. Jung said the commission also plans to look into foreign adoptions of brothers’ children as it continues its investigation.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, South Korean military dictators ordered roundups to beautify the streets. Thousands – including the homeless and disabled as well as children – were snatched from the streets and brought to facilities where they were detained and forced to work.
In interviews with dozens of former Brothers inmates, many said that as children, they were brought to the facility after police officers abducted them, and that their parents had no idea of their whereabouts.
As South Korea began preparations to bid for and host the 1988 Summer Olympics, the campaign intensified. Brothers, a mountain complex in the southern port city of Busan, was the largest of these facilities and held approximately 4,000 prisoners when its horrors were uncovered in 1987.
Kim Yong Won, the former prosecutor who busted the brothers, told The. told The Associated Press That high-ranking officials blocked his investigation under the direction of the office of military magnate Chun Doo-hwan, who feared a shameful international incident on the eve of the Olympics.
The commission began an investigation into the brothers’ abuse in May last year, after a year-long struggle for redemption by the brothers, many of whom are battling financial and health problems.
The commission on Wednesday announced the preliminary results of its investigation into human rights violations at Brothers, including extreme cases of forced labour, violence and deaths.
The commission said it had so far confirmed 657 deaths at Brothers, more than the previously known tally of 513 between 1975 and 1986 recorded in the facility’s records.
It was also found that in the southern city of Busan, where the facility was located, police randomly grabbed people from the streets to send them to brothers, even if they had easily identifiable homes or families, and often was allowed Brothers The employees in the truck are kidnapping themselves.
The commission also said it found that the brothers run by the late owner Park In-kyun and his family had embezzled the salaries of thousands of prisoners who were forced into slavery.
So far, no one has been held responsible for the hundreds of deaths, rapes and beatings of the Brothers.
fight The commission’s chairman, Geun-sik, said its findings were based on an investigation into the cases of 191 individuals, who were among the 544 brothers who have filed applications so far. Jung said the commission also plans to look into foreign adoptions of brothers’ children as it continues its investigation.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, South Korean military dictators ordered roundups to beautify the streets. Thousands – including the homeless and disabled as well as children – were snatched from the streets and brought to facilities where they were detained and forced to work.
In interviews with dozens of former Brothers inmates, many said that as children, they were brought to the facility after police officers abducted them, and that their parents had no idea of their whereabouts.
As South Korea began preparations to bid for and host the 1988 Summer Olympics, the campaign intensified. Brothers, a mountain complex in the southern port city of Busan, was the largest of these facilities and held approximately 4,000 prisoners when its horrors were uncovered in 1987.
Kim Yong Won, the former prosecutor who busted the brothers, told The. told The Associated Press That high-ranking officials blocked his investigation under the direction of the office of military magnate Chun Doo-hwan, who feared a shameful international incident on the eve of the Olympics.
The commission began an investigation into the brothers’ abuse in May last year, after a year-long struggle for redemption by the brothers, many of whom are battling financial and health problems.