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STORY: OHCHR / BUCHA UKRAINE
TRT: 0:58
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 APRIL 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1.Wide shot, exterior, UN Geneva
04 APRIL 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2.SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office:
“The images of civilians lying dead on the streets and in improvised graves in the town of Bucha in Ukraine are horrifying. Reports emerging from this and other areas raise serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes, grave breaches of international humanitarian law and serious violations of international human rights law. It is essential that all bodies are identified including those that need to be exhumed, so that victims’ families can be informed, and the exact causes of death established. All measures should be taken to preserve evidence. It is vital that all efforts are made to ensure there are independent and effective investigations into what happened in Bucha to ensure truth, justice and accountability, as well as reparations and remedy for victims and their families.”
RECENT – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3.Wide shot, exterior, UN Geneva
Spokesperson for the UN human rights office, Liz Throssell, said that it is “vital” that all efforts are made to ensure “there are independent and effective investigations” into what happened in Bucha, Ukraine, to “ensure truth, justice and accountability, as well as reparations and remedy for victims and their families.”
In a recorded message, Throssell said, “the images of civilians lying dead on the streets and in improvised graves in the town of Bucha in Ukraine are horrifying.”
She said that reports emerging from this and other areas “raise serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes, grave breaches of international humanitarian law and serious violations of international human rights law.”
It is essential that all bodies are identified including those that need to be exhumed, so that victims’ families can be informed, and the exact causes of death established, the Spokesperson said.
She reiterated, “all measures should be taken to preserve evidence.”
