Mapping the Brutality of North Korea, and Where the Bodies Are Buried
, and their victims and their approximate numbers." "We don’t know when there will be a trial or other steps to hold perpetrators of the human rights abuses accountable, but
that time will come, and we want to be as ready as possible," said Dan Bielefeld, a web developer and human rights activist from Milwaukee. that a sense of the scale of the human rights violations, their locations
Encouraged by the 2014 United Nations report, Mr. Lee began putting together the international team to use satellite imagery
and open-source mapping technology to record North Korean human rights violations, just as security analysts use such technology to monitor the North’s military and nuclear sites.
United said that Our location-based map of suspected sites is a start down that road.
North said that They hanged people in crowded places like markets and left the bodies there for hours to instill fear among the people,
