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UN rights expert: North Korean leader should be prosecuted
AP via Washington Post ^ | 03/14/16

Posted on 03/14/2016 3:16:52 PM PDT by Enlightened1

GENEVA -- A U.N. expert on human rights in North Korea said Monday supreme leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, asking a key rights body to authorize three experts to look into the legal aspects of criminal accountability.

Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Marzuki Darusman said international criminal law holds military and civilian leaders responsible for failing to prevent or repress crimes against humanity by those under their authority. He said that offers a "plausible theory" to hold Kim and other leaders "individually culpable."

"It is now time for the international community to move on with the logical next step -- which is pursuing accountability of the regime and those most responsible for violations of human rights in the country," Darusman told reporters afterward.

"Nothing happens anywhere in that country without the say-so of the highest supreme leader ... Mr. Kim Jong Un," he added.

North Korean diplomats did not attend the speech by Darusman, who is finishing his six-year tenure in the post. Earlier this month, the secretive regime's foreign minister told the council that his country will "never, ever be bound" by international resolutions that criticize its human rights record.

Darusman cited political prison camps, reports of torture and abductions by state operatives, religious persecution and "slave-like organizing of the labor force" in North Korea. In 2014, Darusman was on a U.N. commission of inquiry on North Korea that published a groundbreaking report laying out widespread abuses like a system of political prison camps holding up to 120,000 people.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: northkorea; prosecuted; pyongyang; unrightsexpert

1 posted on 03/14/2016 3:16:52 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Here’s some handcuffs... let me know how it goes for you.


2 posted on 03/14/2016 3:17:56 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Enlightened1

"You're bweaking my bawls, Hans, you're bweaking my bawls."

3 posted on 03/14/2016 3:18:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tijeras_Slim

4 posted on 03/14/2016 3:19:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Enlightened1

didn’t this guy just endorse Hillary?


5 posted on 03/14/2016 3:20:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

LOL! It would not surprise me Jim.


6 posted on 03/14/2016 3:29:53 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

I’ll tell you what Marzuki, you just roll on over there and tear yourself off a piece OK? You UN punks are always wanting someone else to risk their lives for you. Kind of like our Neocon politicians.


7 posted on 03/14/2016 3:37:18 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Enlightened1

Who’s gonna bell that cat???

LOL


8 posted on 03/14/2016 3:38:39 PM PDT by dasboot
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To: dasboot

Like it’s really gonna happen.


9 posted on 03/14/2016 3:41:59 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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10 posted on 03/14/2016 3:47:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
A U.N. expert on human rights in North Korea...
...talk about a waste of money.

May as well have a U.N. expert on cell division in Donald Duck's brain.


11 posted on 03/14/2016 3:58:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Enlightened1
A U.N. expert on human rights in North Korea said Monday supreme leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity...

Well, it only took three generations for the UN to reach is conclusion.

12 posted on 03/14/2016 5:16:59 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Enlightened1

Alternative headline: North Korean Leader Should Be In A Straitjacket At The Funny Farm


13 posted on 03/14/2016 7:06:35 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (uff said.)
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To: Islander7
Well, it only took three generations for the UN to reach is conclusion.

Really. Now they'll have to find a volunteer to go over there and arrest the guy.

14 posted on 03/14/2016 7:10:36 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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