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The Chief Advisor of the ruling interim government, Muhammad Yunus, has sent a letter inviting Volker Türk, the top executive of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, to Bangladesh. He also requested an official investigation into all the incidents of violence in Bangladesh from July 1 to August 15.
Volker Türk welcomed the invitation. Although he did not give assurance about coming to Bangladesh, he assured the issue of formal investigation.
This information was confirmed in a statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday.
Incidentally, a team from the Human Rights High Commission office came to Dhaka on the 22nd to review various incidents of violence in the recent student-crowd movement in Bangladesh. The team was led by Rory Mungoven, Executive Head of the Asia-Pacific Branch Office of the High Commission for Human Rights.
At that time, an official of the Bangladesh branch office of the United Nation told Reuters that the main goal of this team is not to investigate violence but to review and provide guidelines on how to investigate these incidents of violence.
An official of the Bangladesh branch office told Reuters in this context, "Their main goal is not to investigate violence, but to review and provide guidelines on how these incidents of violence will be investigated."
The United Nations team departed yesterday after seven days in Dhaka. During their stay in Dhaka, the team members met with representatives of the interim government of Bangladesh, the Chief Justice, senior officers of the police and military, lawyers, journalists, human rights activists, representatives of political parties, representatives of various minority and tribal groups, according to Friday's statementAccording to the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights.
