Geneva, Rabi'I 6, 1437, Dec 17, 2015, SPA -- The top U.N. human rights assembly has approved by consensus a resolution calling for the quick deployment of experts to Burundi to look into abuses amid spiraling violence in the east African country. After a U.S.-led diplomatic push, the 47-member Human Rights Council which counts Burundi among members approved the text that calls for the U.N. human rights chief to send in a mission of experts who are to report regularly on the rights situation there. According to AP, the day-long debate Thursday among diplomats and advocacy groups was marked by a defense of Burundi's security forces by a government representative, and teary testimony by Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, a rights advocate who was tortured. --SPA 20:18 LOCAL TIME 17:18 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w