Overseas adoptees welcomed Monday’s announcement of a new Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Korea, expressing hope that it would allow the government to resume and expand investigations into suspected misconduct in an overseas adoption system that sent roughly 200,000 Korean children to Western countries, mostly in the 1960s through the 1980s. The TRC is an independent government body tasked with investigating human rights abuses or mass killings committed by, or involving, the state during the 1950-53 Korean War and under postwar authoritarian governments. The third commission is slated to be launched on Feb. 26, following revisions to the Framework Act on Settling the Past for Truth and Reconciliation passed by the National Assembly last Thursday. The revisions paved the way for the establishment of the new commission. “By establishing TRC3, this parliament has chosen truth over silence, and justice over denial,” Peter Moller, an adoptee from Denmark and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, told The Korea Times. “For those affected by institutionalization and adop
Japan’s ruling LDP set to win majority in lower house contest: Kyodo poll
...
Read moreDetails