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Trigger-happy President Blaise Compaoré's human rights embarrassments have gone from bad to worse with an assault on 6 February from Amnesty International over 106 extrajudicial executions documented since the launch of an anti-banditry campaign in November. The Mouvement Burkinabè des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples (MBDHP) has been investigating the killings. Halidou Ouédraogo, a leading light in the MBDHP, is suspected by many close to Compaoré of using the organisation for party political ends....

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Blaise Compaoré, Halidou Ouédraogo, Norbert Zongo, Charles Taylor, Djibril Bassoli, Monique Ilboudo, Ernest Paramanga Yonli, Mouvement Burkinabè des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples, Collectif d'Organisations Démocratiques de Masse et de Partis Politiques, Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès

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