Scope of Investigation: Human Rights Abuses Under Authoritarian Regimes
The commission's scope included incidents of death, injury or disappearance, and any other major human rights violations including politically fabricated trials, committed through illegal or seriously unjust exercise of state power such as breaking the constitutional order from August 15, 1945 up until the end of the authoritarian governments, particularly under the former generals Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan.
Sometimes, the commission deals with cases that have already been ruled on in court, but qualify for new trials and need to be re-investigated for truth; and cases that the Presidential Truth Commission on Suspicious Deaths inconclusively investigated and requested the TRCK to re-investigate.
Read more about this topic: Truth And Reconciliation Commission (South Korea)
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