/ 2 March 2001

AMNESTY CALLS FOR ACTION ON TOGO

AMNESTY International has called on the United Nations to act quickly to protect people who have spoken out against human rights abuses in Togo and to appoint a special rapporteur to the country. The joint UN-OAU commission, which issued its report last week, was created in June 2000 after Amnesty International said the Togolese security forces had killed several hundred people and thrown their bodies into the sea. – AFP