UN rights chief urges int'l probe into Beirut port blast

W460

The U.N. human rights chief decried Monday the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that killed that killed more than 220 people, wounded 7,500 and destroyed swathes of the city.

"Three years after the Beirut explosion, ... there has been no accountability," Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council, adding "it may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy."

Comments 3
Missing HellAndWaite 11 September 2023, 15:41

"Lebanese won't help themselves, so we should help them for them .." ... "Colonialism" by another name.

Thumb chrisrushlau 11 September 2023, 20:37

Turk told reporters at his palatial seaside home in Miami, "I have no interest in how the Lebanese govern themselves; my concern merely is with tidiness and the appearance of normality."

Missing fuzzyd72 12 September 2023, 11:00

But Turk, ya habibi, the Lebanese people don't want to accountable for anything unless is it a personal boost to their ego.