A ‘paroxysm of violence’: UN

Geneva: The UN human rights chief Volker Türk Monday said that Bangladesh experienced a “paroxysm of violence” last year as the government of the time “brutally suppressed” a student movement that carried human rights as its torch. “The country is charting a new future. Our recent independent fact-finding report on the rights violations that took place is an important contribution to this journey,” he said.