(30 Oct 2024)
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – 30 October 2024
1. Wide of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk during news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“The pursuit of justice for the brutal violence against protestors and other people – including children – killed and seriously wounded in July and August is a priority. Today, I visited Nitol Hospital, where some of the students who were shot while participating in protests in July, are still undergoing treatment, often requiring multiple surgeries. After any period of repression, upheaval and violence, there needs to be a national process of truth and healing to move forward.”
3. Cutaway of journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“This time, there must be justice. This time, reforms must be sustainable and durable, so that the abusive practices of the last decades are not repeated. There are real opportunities, and certainly high expectations, for fundamental change for the better – for a new approach to governance, development and economic policies grounded in human rights, drawing on the achievements of the recent movement, and building strong foundations to overcome divisiveness, discrimination and impunity."
5. Cutaway of journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“I commend the efforts made by students and others to protect minorities, and our fact-finding mission is investigating allegations of attacks against minorities between 5 and 15 August. It is vital that the authorities respond quickly to any incidents reported by conducting thorough investigations and holding perpetrators accountable. This will help build trust with minority communities.”
7. Various of end of news conference
STORYLINE:
A top United Nations human rights official called Wednesday for a thorough investigation of all killings and other rights violations during the violent unrest leading up to and after the fall of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk concluded a two-day visit to Bangladesh on Wednesday, as an interim government headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is navigating through challenges to establish order in the country.
Hasina ended her 15-year rule when she fled the country to India on Aug. 5 after a student-led demonstration morphed into an anti-government protest movement in July.
Hundreds of students, security officials and others were killed during the protests, and after Hasina’s fall hundreds more, including Hasina’s supporters, were killed in revenge attacks or in mob violence across the South Asian nation.
Türk has already sent a fact-finding mission to look into the killings after the Yunus-led government formally requested an investigation by the U.N.
Hasina had also sought an investigation into the killings.
Türk highlighted the need to thoroughly investigate the allegations of attacks on the country’s minority groups including its Hindu religious minority, which has been protesting on streets demanding safety and other rights.
“The pursuit of justice for the brutal violence against protestors and other people – including children – killed and seriously wounded in July and August is a priority,” he told a press conference in Dhaka, the nation’s capital.
Türk praised the Yunus-led government for its desire to pursue crucial reforms in the country.
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