From: Habib Yousafzai <yousafzai49@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:14 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] UN asks for full disclosure on killing
UN asks for full disclosure on killing
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Oslo, May 5: UN human rights chief Navi Pillay Thursday called for "a full disclosure of the accurate facts" to determine the legality of the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
"I'm still for a full disclosure of the accurate facts," Pillay told reporters in Oslo. "I think it's not just my office but anybody is entitled to know exactly what happened," she added.
Pillay's declarations come a day after US Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate hearing the raid during which bin Laden was killed "was lawful and consistent with our values."
"The United Nations condemns terrorism but it also has basic rules of how counter-terrorism activity has to be carried out. It has to be in compliance with international law," she said.
"For instance, you're not allowed to commit torture or extra-judicial killings," she explained.
The White House's changing story over the attack has raised doubts about US assurances that the US special operations forces sent to bin Laden's lair in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad were prepared to take him alive.
"If he had surrendered, I think - attempted to surrender - I think we should, obviously, have accepted that," Holder told the Senate committee.
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Palash Biswas
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