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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Chadian authorities to conduct an “independent investigation” into the violent protests in Chad that left some 50 people dead last week.
HRW in a statement referring to demonstrators being “beaten” and “hundreds” of arrests “during and after the demonstrations, stated that security forces fired on demonstrators in several towns in Chad, including the capital, N’Djamena.
Central Africa director at Human Rights Watch, Lewis Mudge, said that the human rights group called for an “independent and effective” investigation to determine “whether the use of lethal force by the security services was a justified and proportional response to any alleged violence.