Mozambique’s security forces carried out a brutal, three-month crackdown on protesters after the country’s election last year, said a leading international rights group, citing local activists who alleged that more than 300 people were killed and more than 3,000 were injured in the unrest.
In its new report, Amnesty International called on Mozambican authorities to investigate the killings and all rights violations in the wake of the election, and to bring law enforcement officials responsible to justice.
Thousands of Mozambicans took part in waves of protests in the weeks after the Oct. 9 presidential and parliamentary election, where Daniel Chapo of the ruling Frelimo party was declared the winner amid allegations of rigging and election fraud raised by his challengers and international observers.
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