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CAR / HUMAN RIGHTS WRAP
STORY: CAR / HUMAN RIGHTS WRAP
TRT: 01:55
SOURCE: OHCHR / MINUSCA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MAY 2017, BANGUI, CAR / 29 MAY 2017, BAMBARI, CAR
30 MAY 2017, BANGUI, CAR
1. Wide shot, launch the mapping report
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights:
"This document marks the history of many victims, mostly civilians, with the aim of keeping them out of the shadow of the atrocities committed."
3. Wide shot, launch
29 MAY 2017, BAMBARI, CAR
4. Wide shot, Gilmour’s arrival
5. Wide shot, IDP camp
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights:
“I have encountered a very strong wish on the part of Central Africans to get justice for what they suffered.”
7. Various shots, IDPs at water point
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights:
“In order to turn the page, in order to move towards peace and reconciliation, there needs to be a feeling that justice is being met. And this report will contribute to that. There is a special criminal court that has just been set up and the prosecutor has just arrived and our report will undoubtedly be useful for him and the court to take forward the process of individual justice.”
9. Various shots, IDPs
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Diane Corner, Deputy Head of MINUSCA:
“It goes through the history of the Central African Republic and outlines the major human rights abuses that took place during that period. It was a very difficult period for the country. A lot of people suffered and where victims of abuses.”
11. Various shots, injured IDPs
30 MAY 2017, BANGUI, CAR
12. Wide shot, Muslim girl walks next to UN military position
13. Med shot, UN military position
Mass killings and other serious human rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been documented in an extensive UN mapping report released today (30 May) in Bangui.
The report covers the multiple conflicts in the CAR between 2003 and 2015. Many of the violations may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the mapping report states, as it sets out a strategy to fight pervasive impunity in the country.
At the launch of the report Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, said "this document marks the history of many victims, mostly civilians, with the aim of keeping them out of the shadow of the atrocities committed."
Gilmour, who is currently on an official visit to the CAR, visited Bambari on Monday.
During that visit, he said “I have encountered a very strong wish on the part of central Africans to get justice for what they suffered.”
Gilmour said “in order to turn the page, in order to move towards peace and reconciliation, there needs to be a feeling that justice is being met. And this report will contribute to that”.
The mapping report by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has documented patterns of serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by successive Government forces and various local and foreign armed groups, as well as international and foreign defence forces.
Diane Corner, deputy head of MINUSCA said “It was a very difficult period for the country. A lot of people suffered ad where victims of abuses.”
While the report recognizes the challenging security situation in the CAR, it recommends that some steps be taken immediately to initiate transitional justice processes, including the development of a national approach to human rights vetting of security and defence forces.
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