UN rights chief urges reparations for colonialism, slavery | Malay Mail

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks during an urgent debate on current racially inspired human rights violations at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland June 17, 2020.— Reuters pic

She pointed to the “gratuitous brutality” on display in the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in Minneapolis in the US on May 25 after a white police officer—since charged with murder—kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. She stressed the need to “make amends for centuries of violence and discrimination, including through formal apologies, truth-telling processes, and reparations in various forms.”

The US itself withdrew from the council two years ago, but a number of its allies are uncomfortable with the country being singled out in the text, according to observers of the process.

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