SRI LANKA / ZEID

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is in Sri Lanka, where he will hold discussions with the authorities about the implementation of a Human Rights Council resolution. OHCHR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:21
• Production Date: 8 February 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: SRI LANKA
• MAMS Id: 1560147
• Parent Id: 1560147
• Alternate Title: unifeed160208b

Description

STORY: SRI LANKA / ZEID
TRT: 01:21
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 7, 8 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDA, SRI LANKA

Shotlist

7 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDY, SRI LANKA

1. Wide shot, visit Sri Dalada Maligawa

8 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDA, SRI LANKA

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“The visit will end over the next two days in Colombo where we will follow up on the resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council in respect of Colombo in detailed discussions with Sri Lankan authorities.”

7 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDA, SRI LANKA

3. Med shot meeting with meeting with Maha Nayaka of Malwatte
4. Close up, religious leader

8 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDA, SRI LANKA

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“The meetings with the relatives of the disappeared are heart rendering and moving experiences for many of them to recall the occasion when their loved ones went missing. There were tears of course and in these experiences one cannot but sense that the human emotion is stretched to the limit.”

7 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDA, SRI LANKA

6. Close up, High Commissioner
7. Med shot religious leader

8 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDA, SRI LANKA

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations:
“It gave added intensity to what we already know about those who were forcibly removed from their homes and are yearning to go back. And this is something I will continue and over the next two days will raise with all the senior officials that I come into contact with”

7 FEBRUARY 2016, KANDA, SRI LANKA

9. Various shots, High Commissioner walking

Storyline

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is in Sri Lanka on a four-day visit, where he will hold discussions with the authorities about the implementation of a human rights council resolution.

In October last year, a Council resolution was passed, calling for a special judicial mechanism to prosecute war crimes in Sri Lanka. Both the army and the Tamil Tiger rebels are accused of atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009. As many as 100,000 people are thought to have died in the conflict.

While in Kanda, he met with religions leaders and spent time with victims, including the internally displaced from past conflicts in the South Asian nation. He described their stories as “heart rendering.”