UN General Assembly seeks North Korea ICC charges

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The UN General Assembly has voted in favour of referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity.

The resolution was passed by 116 votes to 20, with more than 50 abstentions.

The UN Security Council is expected to discuss the resolution on Monday, but it is likely to face stiff opposition from China and Russia.
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It added that those accused of political crimes were "disappeared" to prison camps, where they were subject to "deliberate starvation, forced labour, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30540379

[choie]

1. ummm...

shall I state the obvious? I wonder how the U.S. voted? and why hasn't the UN put forward a vote on the U.S's war crimes....hmmmm

[Fred Sanders]

2. Isn't the proposed Indictment word for word what America did?

It added that those accused of political crimes were "disappeared" to prison camps, where they were subject to "deliberate starvation, forced labour, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide".

Take out a few words, keep "torture", add forced rectal feedings, hanging by hands while legs broken, religious desecration, waterboarding....same thing?

[project_bluebook]

3. Much more needs to be done againt China's little basturd. eom