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NEWS RELEASES Zanzibar: Violence Condemned (New York, January 31, 2001) The Tanzanian police and army are using unrestrained force to shoot, injure, and kill people on Pemba and Zanzibar islands, Human Rights Watch charged today. Hundreds have reportedly been killed or injured. Nigeria: Teenage Mother Whipped (New York, January 23, 2001) Human Rights Watch today condemned the Nigerian government's failure to protect a teenage mother, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, from being whipped by local officials. Officials of Zamfara state carried out a flogging of one hundred lashes as punishment for Magazu's having sex outside marriage, although an appeal against her conviction and sentence was pending. Congo: Massacres in Ugandan-Controlled Areas (New York, January 22, 2001) The Ugandan government must be held responsible for the security of the population and humanitarian workers in areas under its control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Human Rights Watch said today. Congo: The Kabila Legacy (New York, January 19, 2001) Laurent-Desire Kabila took control of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997 after a bloody war in which his supporters and Rwandan and Ugandan allies killed tens of thousands of civilians. He defended his regime in a second war after his erstwhile allies, Rwanda and Uganda, invaded the country in 1998. More News Releases (2000 and before) | |  | |
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