Togo’s reconciliation commission (CVJR), which is hearing testimony from victims of political violence over almost five decades, said it extended the deadline for taking depositions after hearing 14,958 so far.
The testimony period, originally scheduled to end today, will be open until Dec. 17, Nicodeme Barrigah-Benissan, president of the Lome-based commission, said.
The commission is looking into allegations of crimes from 1958, two years before the West African nation won independence from colonial ruler France, until 2005.
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