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UN Human Rights Spokesperson Seif Magango on UN report urges accountability for violations in Tarhuna, Libya
STORY: UN Human Rights Spokesperson Seif Magango on UN report urging accountability for violations in Tarhuna, Libya.
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SOURCE: UNTV/OHCHR
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LANGUAGE: English/NATS
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DATELINE: 30 August 2024 – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
SHOTLIST
- Exterior shot : Palais des Nations
- Wide shot : briefing room
- SOUNDBITE (English)— Seif Magango, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “A new report we are issuing jointly with the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) warns that the continued lack of accountability and years of impunity enjoyed by those behind the human rights violations and abuses committed in the Libyan city of Tarhuna between 2013 and 2022 risk fuelling more instability and division in the country.”
- Cutaway: Briefing room
- SOUNDBITE (English)— Seif Magango, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “The report details how the Al-Kaniyat, an armed element which emerged in 2011 and exercised brutal control over Tarhuna, a city of some 150,000 people 90 km southeast of Tripoli, carried out gross human rights violations and abuses including killings, disappearances, sexual violence, abductions, torture, ill-treatment and forced displacement between 2013 and 2022.”
- Cutaway: Briefing room
- SOUNDBITE (English)— Seif Magango, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “It decries the failure to deliver justice which has in some instances led to renewed violence and repeated violations, fomenting further grievances in Tarhuna and surrounding areas Al-Kaniyat’s integration into the former Government of National Accord (GNA) and later the Libyan National Army (LNA), says the report, has been a significant barrier to accountability and justice.”
- Cutaway: Briefing room
- SOUNDBITE (English)— Seif Magango, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “Commenting on the report, High Commissioner Volker Türk said: ‘Years have passed since these terrible violations were committed, but the perpetrators have still not been brought to justice, nor have truth, justice or reparations been delivered to victims and their families. The impunity must end – there must be accountability in accordance with international due process and fair trial standards.’”
- Cutaway: Briefing room
- SOUNDBITE (English)— Seif Magango, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): “The 2022 Fact-Finding Mission report detailed evidence of atrocities committed in Tarhuna, including through the discovery of mass graves containing hundreds of humans remains, most of them handcuffed, blindfolded and bearing signs of torture, and warned of the possibility that there could be up to 100 more such mass burial sites.”
- Cutaway: Briefing room
Teleprompter
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warns that
the continued lack of accountability and years of impunity enjoyed
by those behind the human rights violations and abuses committed
in the Libyan city of Tarun
risks fueling instability
and division in the country.
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an armed element which emerged in
2011
and exercised brutal control over Tarun, a
city of 150,000 people
90 kilometres southeast of Tripoli,
carried out gross human rights violations and abuses
including killings, disappearances, sexual violence, abductions, torture
and ill treatment, and force displacement
between the years 2013 and 2022.
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which has in some instances led to renewed violence and repeated violations,
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said.
Years have passed since these terrible violations were committed,
but the perpetrators have still not been brought to justice,
nor have truth,
justice and reparations been delivered to victims and their families.
The impunity must end.
There must be accountability in accordance with international due
process and fair trial standards and of court.
For his part, acting head of the UN Support Mission in Libya and Deputy
stun must end.
There must be accountability in accordance with international due process
and
the 2022 fact finding mission for background.
The report detailed evidence of atrocities committed in
Tahuna,
including through the discovery of mass
graves containing hundreds of human remains,
most of them handcuffed, blindfolded and bearing signs of torture.
Uh, the report.
The report also warned of the possibility that there could
be up to 100 more such mass burial sites.
The report, which compliments and