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Government threatens to sue Amnesty

Togo's government said on Wednesday it would sue Amnesty International over a report alleging that Lome was responsible for hundreds of political killings, disappearances, and torture. The Amnesty report contained "disinformation, fakery and gross fiction", the government said in a statement. The 45-page report accused the Togolese armed forces and paramilitary police of killing hundreds of people, including members of the military. For days, their bodies were washed up on the beaches of Togo and neighbouring Benin, it said. The government expressed indignation at the accusation, describing it as "surreal and unfounded", while a news source told IRIN: "We are surprised by Amnesty's report especially about the bodies floating on beaches". The government noted that had hundreds of bodies turned up on beaches, especially when the country was awash with journalists during the electoral period, someone would have reported it.

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