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UN-OAU enquiry into extra-judicial killings

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    The secretaries-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Salim Ahmed Salim announced on Wednesday the establishment of a joint UN-OAU commission of inquiry into allegations of hundreds of extradjudicial executions in Togo in 1998. The three-member commission, created at the request of Togo's government, will be headed by Mahamat Hassan Abakar of Chad. It will also include Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah of Mauritania and Brazilian Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. Togo's request for an international inquiry followed claims in a 1999 Amnesty International report that the bodies of victims of extrajudicial executions in Togo had been washed up on Togolese and Beninois shores after being dumped into the Atlantic.

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