Dhaka, March 3 -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Monday hoped that their recent independent fact-finding report will support truth-telling, accountability, reparations, healing and reform.

"It will be crucial to ensure due process in criminal cases and investigate revenge violence, including against minorities," he said, while sharing a global update at the 58th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Turk said Bangladesh last year experienced a paroxysm of violence as the government of the time "brutally suppressed" a student movement that carried human rights as its torch.

"The country is now charting a new future," he said, adding that their recent independent fact-finding report on the grave human right...