The Hammarskjöld Commission, a voluntary body of four international jurists, deals with circumstances of the tragic death of the former UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld. In September 1961 the Secretary-General died with all other passengers in a plane crash. Untill today inquiries into the crash did not find specific causes. The Hammarskjöld Commission's report, published in September 2013, selects new evidence which shows that the aircraft may have been shot down on the way to peace negotiations in what is now Zambia. According to the report the new findings now available would justify that the UN reopens its inquiry.
March 21, 2014 ǀ The Hammarskjöld Commission
Inquiry by Hammarskjöld Commission: New investigation into the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld
To read the full report, please click here.
The Hammarskjöld Commission is a voluntary body of four international jurists dealing with evidence about the airplane crash in 1961, in which the former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died.
They have been invited by an international Enabling Committee to report new available evidence, because previous inquiries into the crash did not figure out specific causes. Following this, in September 2013 the Hammarskjöld Commission published a report showing that the airplane may have been shot down on the way to peace negotiations in what is now Zambia. In the view of the Hammarskjöld Commission, the evidence now available would justify that the UN reopens its inquiry.
In February 2014, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote a request to the General Assembly, asking to put the new evidence on the agenda of its sixty-eight session.
More about the forwarding to the General Assembly: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45803&Cr=hammarskj%C3%B6ld&Cr1=#.U1-e84XB1vA.
To read the full Hammarskjöld Commission report, please click here.
