GENEVA / LIBYA

The UN human rights office said that the Libyan government "needs to protect its population better”, in the wake of the surge in violence in the east of the country. CH UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:08
• Production Date: 6 June 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: LIBYA
• MAMS Id: 1118429

Description

STORY: GENEVA / LIBYA
TRT: 1.08
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 6 JUNE 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT

Shotlist

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1. External shot, Palais des Nations

6 JUNE 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
"We’re urging the Government as far as it can, to try and protect the population better and to do what it can to stop the situation, pretty much utter impunity for the people who are carrying out these killings.”
3. Cutaway, Colville on the phone
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
"We’re very concerned about the increase in violence in Libya. The tragic murder of the ICRC delegate who was killed in Sirte two days ago, a really is a symptom of how bad things are getting…chronic violence, especially in the East of the country, Benghazi, but also other cities.”
5. Cutaway, Colville at the window
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: "There are just so many armed groups. The Government, whatever its intensions may be, does not have full control of the country. There are too many guns, too many young people fighting out their own agendas at local levels, too many armed groups.”

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7. Wide shot, Palais with surroundings

Storyline

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said today (6 June)that the Libyan government "needs to protect the population better”, in the wake of the surge in violence in the east of the country.

OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville said that the government of Libya has to do what it can to stop the violence.

Colville also said that OHCHR was “very concerned about the increase in violence in Libya”.

He said that the murder of Michael Greub, of the International Committee of the Red Cross on 4 June in Sirte was a sign of a worsening sitution.