UN High Commissioner for Human Rights demands details on Osama bin Laden’s death

PanARMENIAN.Net - The U.N.'s top human rights official says the global body wants details on the death of Osama bin Laden. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says the raid on the al-Qaida leader's hideaway in Pakistan "was a complex operation, and it would be helpful if we knew the precise facts surrounding his killing."

Pillay has frequently stressed the importance of respecting international law during counter-terror operations. But in a statement she acknowledged that "taking him alive was always likely to be difficult." Pillay says had bin Laden been captured he would likely have been charged with the most serious offenses including crimes against humanity, AP reported.

US President Barack Obama said he had decided not to release a photograph showing the body of Osama bin Laden for fear it will become a propaganda tool, according to AFP.

"That is not who we are. We don't trot this stuff out as trophies," Obama said in an interview with CBS, adding it was important to keep photographic evidence from "floating around as incitement or propaganda tool."

"There is no doubt that bin Laden is dead. Certainly there is... no doubt among Al-Qaeda members that he is dead. And so we don't think that a photograph in and of itself is going to make any difference. The fact of the matter is, you will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again," Obama said, according to an excerpt of the interview read to reporters by White House spokesman Jay Carney.