UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk calls for probe into violent unrest leading up to and after the fall of country’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina
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.
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. “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.
“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,” he added.
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