AI has just received reports of the killing of at least 100 unarmed civilians in southern Chad’s Logone Orientale province. The killings are reported to have been carried out on 5 April by members of the Republican Guard, a unit of the army directly responsible to the President. The killings are reported to have occurred in the villages of Kouh, Kobiteye and Bekolo. A commission of inquiry has reportedly been set up. These killings occur in the context of the supression of an armed rebellion which started in February 1992.
