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South Korean truth commission halts probe into adoption fraud

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirms human rights violations in just 56 of 367 complaints filed by adoptees.

Decision stems from internal disputes among commissioners regarding which cases warranted recognition as problematic.

Decision now hinges on whether lawmakers will establish a new truth commission.

Commission concluded in March that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program riddled with fraud and abuse.

South Korea originally launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2006 to investigate past human rights violations.

The commission was relaunched in December 2020 under the country’s former liberal government.

Foreign adoptions were a major subject of the second commission, along with the atrocities at Brothers Home .