North Korea Has At Least 300 Mass Execution Sites And 47 Burial Grounds, Report Says

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North Korea Has At Least 300 Mass Execution Sites And 47 Burial Grounds, Report Says
By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 On 07/19/17 AT 8:24 AM

A human rights group has prepared a preliminary map of execution sites and burial grounds in North Korea, in the first coordinated efforts by activists and researchers to unveil the level of Pyongyang's brutality.

The report by Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) uncovered more than 300 execution sites and 47 burial grounds in the country.

The study, conducted over a period of two years, mapped the sites through the testimonies of North Korean defectors.

The group said its motive was to prepare a detailed map of the execution and burial sites using Google Earth satellite imagery and the help of 375 North Korean defectors so that International rights officials can easily locate and exhume the bodies. The recovered forensic evidence can help bring the culprits to justice some day in the distant future, the group said.

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