UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said the UN fact-finding mission on the July-August movement is in its final stages and will be released in mid-February.
The United Nations High Commissioner made this comment while meeting Bangladesh's Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Turk said that the report will be shared with the Bangladesh side before it is published by the United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva. Principal Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus thanked the UN Human Rights Office for investigating the crimes committed during the student-led uprising. He said the report of six independent commissions will also be published around the same time. They observed that these reports could complement each other. The chief adviser called on the UN human rights chief for his support in resolving the Rohingya crisis, which has worsened in recent months following the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new refugees from Myanmar. Professor Yunus has called for the creation of a UN-overseen safe zone inside Myanmar's Rakhine region in an effort to stop renewed Rohingya infiltration. The Chief Adviser pointed to the upcoming high-level conference on the Rohingya crisis, saying it would draw global attention to the worst humanitarian crisis. Turk agreed that such a conference was crucial to regain the lost attention of the international community on the crisis.
