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    Around 3,000 demonstrators from opposition parties called on Saturday in Lome for an international investigation into an Amnesty International (AI) report that hundreds of political opponents were killed during political unrest in 1998 in Togo, news reports said.

    Protesters also called for the release of three human rights activists - Nestor Tengue, Francois Gayibor and Antoine Koffi Nadjombe - detained for allegedly collaborating with AI.

    In its document, released on 6 May, AI said government forces carried out the killings at the time of Eyadema's re-election in June 1998. The Togolese government denied this and is suing AI over the report.

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