GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet expressed outrage on Thursday at comments by Burundi's ambassador in New York comparing the chairman of a U.N. inquiry into the country to a participant in the slave trade.
Burundi's Ambassador to the United Nations Albert Shingiro, speaking at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, rubbished a report by the Commission of Inquiry into human rights in Burundi.
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