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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Systematic political repression in Ethiopia's largest state has kept people there from freely participating in the country's third general election campaign, a leading human rights group said Tuesday.
In its report, New York-based Human Rights Watch calls into question the fairness of the electoral process in one of the United States' closest allies in Africa, saying the ruling party has cracked down on political activities in the state of Oromia.
The southern state is home to the Oromo people, who make up a third of Ethiopia's 73 million people, and it has been the center of dissent against the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front.
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