Amnesty International Report 1989

Government agents in countries throughout the world killed tens of thousands of their citizens in 1988. Each one of these deaths was unlawful.
The killing grounds were many and varied. Some victims were killed in full public view – in the streets, outside their homes or in mosques and churches. Others were put to death in secret cells and remote camps.
Most victims were thought to be opponents of the government of the days Others were targeted because of their religion, ethnic origin, language or political beliefs.
They were assassinated by snipers, blown up by explosive devices, strangled, hacked to death, tortured and poisoned.
This report, covering 133 countries, highlights the toll of extrajudicial executions in its annual review of human rights violations worldwide. It also details the plight of prisoners of conscience, political prisoners denied fair trials, the victims of torture and "disappearance" and those who have been judicially executed.
The most comprehensive of the organization's reports, Amnesty International Report 1989 presents a stark challenge to the world's conscience and points the way to action in defence of the victims ofhuman rights violations.