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Amnesty International accused the security forces in...

Amnesty International accused the security forces in the Ivory Coast of committing some of the worst human rights abuses seen in the West African state for three decades

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Amnesty International accused the security forces in the Ivory Coast of committing some of the worst human rights abuses seen in the West African state for three decades. The London-based human rights group said killings and torture were carried out with total impunity.Amnesty said that at least 57 opposition supporters, whose bodies were found in a grave in the Abidjan district of Youpougon, in October 2000, were reported to be victims of extrajudicial executions.
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  • (Sources: Reuters, 30/05/2001)