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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kim Tong-Hyung

South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud

South Korea Adoptions - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country’s history, began accepting new cases Thursday, months after the previous one's mandate ended in November with more than 2,100 complaints unresolved.

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