UN high commissioner for human rights Volker T眉rk on Monday hoped that their recent independent fact-finding report would support truth-telling, accountability, reparations, healing and reform in Bangladesh.
鈥業t will be crucial to ensure due process in criminal cases and investigate revenge violence, including against minorities,鈥� he said, while sharing a global update at the 58th session of the human rights council in Geneva.
Turk said that Bangladesh last year experienced a paroxysm of violence as the government of the time 鈥榖rutally suppressed鈥� a student movement that carried human rights as its torch.
鈥楾he country is now charting a new future,鈥� he said, adding that their recent independent fact-finding report on the grave human rights violations that took place was an 鈥榠mportant contribution鈥� to the journey.
In Myanmar, 2024 was the deadliest year for civilians since the military coup four years ago, said the UN rights chief at the same event.
Turk said that the military ramped up brutal attacks on civilians as their grip on power eroded, with retaliatory airstrikes and artillery shelling of villages and urban areas, arbitrary arrests and prosecutions, and the forcible conscription of thousands of young people.
鈥業 urge the international community to decisively cut the supply of arms and finance that enable the military鈥檚 vicious repression,鈥� said the UN human rights chief.
