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A family restoration organization called the ¡°Institute for Loving Families¡± submitted a petition Tuesday to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, saying that the special clause that prevents bi-racial people from serving in the army may violate human rights.
In the clause stipulating that those who are visibly bi-racial or bi-racial children who were not raised by their father must be assigned to the Defense Corps or be exempted from service, the words ¡°mixed-blood children¡± are discriminatory and violate human rights to some degree, the petition said. The clause should be abolished or the wording of ¡°mixed-blood children¡± should be changed to ¡°children from multi-culture families,¡± it said.
The current law treats bi-racial children as socially unfit by putting them in the same category as people with criminal records or undereducated people, the petition said. In particular, because the wording ¡°mixed-blood children,¡± refers to children, the word is insulting for people who are over 18 years old and eligible to serve in the army, the organization said.
(Hong Won-sang, wshong@chosun.com )
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