North Korea conducts public executions to incite fear among the public, a rights...
SEOUL - North Korea conducts public executions to incite fear among the public, a rights group said on Tuesday in a report pinpointing at least 323 sites used by the government for capital punishment.
“Public executions are to remind people of particular policy positions that the state has,” said TJWG research director Sarah A. Son.Purged members of the elite have been among those executed in public, such as leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, Jang Song Thaek, in 2013. Crowds, often of hundreds of people, and sometimes a 1,000 or more, would gather. The youngest person to witness a public execution was 7 years old, the group said.
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