Brothers Home

Brothers Home (Korean: 형제복지원) was an internment camp located in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s and 80s. During its operation, it held thousands of people who were rounded up off of the street, the homeless some of whom were children, in addition to a college student who was protesting the regime. The camp was home to some of the worst human rights abuses in South Korea during the period, which were exposed in an Associated Press article[1] and CNN in 2016.[2][3]

The South Korean government called the brothers home and other similar concentration camps opened by the Chun doo hwan regime during the fourth and fifth republics: "welfare centers".

A DW news article claims a minimum of 516 people died over the course of 20 years in welfare centers like these. [4] Widespread torture was common in these welfare centers [5]

See also

References
  1. Tong-Hyung, Kim; Klug, Foster (19 April 2016). "AP: S. Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants'". The Big Story. Associated Press. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  2. Child victims of Brothers Home still search for justice
  3. "Brothers' Home: South Korea's 1980s 'concentration camp'". BBC News. 30 May 2020.
  4. "Report highlights past abuse of 'vagrants' in SKorea - 21.04.2016". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  5. Jung, Bugyeong (2020-05-30). "Brothers' Home: South Korea's 1980s 'concentration camp'". BBC News. Retrieved 2021-10-26.

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