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STORY: OHCHR / TURK DRC VISIT
TRT: 02:25
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 16 APRIL 2024 KINSHASA / BUNIA, ITURI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
1. Various shots, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights with colleagues looking at maps in Kinshasa, DRC.
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Volker Türk, UN High Commissionner for Human Rights:
“It is one of the richest countries in the world, but we see how this wealth is unfortunately not available to the population because there is violence.”
« C’est un des pays les plus riche du monde, mais on voit comment ces richesses sont malheureusement pas disponible à la population parce qu’il y a la violence. »
3. Close up, maps
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Volker Türk, UN High Commissionner for Human Rights:
« Tout d’abord voir les personnes déplacé à cause du conflit et de la violence et aussi en va voire les autorités et la société civile.»
“First of all, see the people displaced by conflict and violence and also see the authorities and civil society.”
5. Aerial shot, eastern DRC
6. Aerial shot, Landing in Bunia, Ituri DRC
7. Various shots, arrival in Bunia
8. Various shots, Volker Türk and delegation arriving in IDP camp near Bunia, Ituri DRC
9. Interior shots, IDPs meet and exchange with High Commissioner, Nat sound IDP in French
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“I just met with a group of people who had been displaced as a result of horrible, violent massacres committed in their homes. And they have been here for the last four years. Their most fervent wish is to be able to go back.”
11. Wide shot, IDPs walking past in camp
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is currently on an official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to discuss human rights, and to voice support for the country and its people.
Speaking on his first full day in the DRC, he highlighted how this huge country was one of the richest in natural resources, but these riches had brought little benefit to the population as a whole, because of violence and conflicts.
« C’est un des pays les plus riche du monde, mais on voit comment ces richesses ne sont malheureusement pas disponible à la population parce qu’il y a la violence. Tout d’abord voir les personnes déplacées à cause du conflit et de la violence et aussi en va voire les autorités et la société civile » said Türk, speaking in French.
One of the UN Human Rights Chief’s main aims is to raise awareness of the plight of civilians amid ongoing conflicts in the east of the country and identify ways to protect victims and prevent further violations.
On Tuesday (16 Apr), he paid a visit to a camp for internally displaced people near Bunia in Ituri province.
Those there had fled atrocities, seeing their villages attacked, their houses burned down, and people killed, one of the camp’s residents told the High Commissioner.
“I just met with a group of people who had been displaced as a result of horrible, violent massacres committed in their homes. And they have been here for the last four years. Their most fervent wish is to be able to go back,” Türk said.
There are some 1.8 million displaced people in Ituri. The total number for the DRC now stands at around 7.2 million.
Türk’s mission continues until Thursday. He is due to meet President Félix Tshisekedi and senior members of the Government. Also in Kinshasa, he will meet civil society representatives, the National Human Rights Commission, members of political parties and the diplomatic community.
