Reuters: "I believe that the report will be an overwhelming, overwhelming report that chemical weapons (were) used even though I cannot publicly say at this time before I receive this report," Ban said at a U.N. meeting.
"I believe that the report will be an overwhelming, overwhelming report" that chemical weapons were used, "even though I cannot publicly say at this time before I receive this report," Mr. Ban said at a women's forum at the United Nations headquarters, which was captured on an internal video broadcast.
On Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said a UN report due out next week on the incident would be "an overwhelming report that chemical weapons were used".
"The reason people do things like [Kunming] is to make people feel scared, and overwhelming reporting will help them realize their goals," said Yang Shu, head of the Central Asia Studies Institute at Lanzhou University.
Appearing at a U.N. meeting he apparently thought was off the record, Ban said, "I believe that the report will be an overwhelming, overwhelming report that chemical weapons [were] used, even though I cannot publicly say so at this time, before I receive the report.
The overwhelming majority reported experiencing work-related violence however, very low proportions had reported these incidents to police.
The overwhelming majority reported preference for consulting the Borana wise men and indigenous healers, but they also reported their belief in other interventions such as modern mental health care delivered in health centers in their area or going to bigger towns to get more specialized care as a last resort.
Despite excellent advances in civil rights, an overwhelming majority reported experiencing bullying and physical assaults in either school, the workplace or in the communities in which they lived.
The evidence that Armstrong used EPO in the 1999 race was overwhelming, the report said, adding, "No other conclusion is even plausible".
