The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has confirmed a total of 65 fatalities in connection with a series of protests that took place across the country in the second half of the year.
In a report released on Thursday, IPOA found that most of the deaths were linked mainly to police actions during crowd control operations, as well as incidents during the protests.
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