Chad opposition figure was likely shot at point-blank range
A prominent Chadian opposition leader, who was killed in February by government troops, appears to have been shot in the side of the head at close range, according to five forensic experts who reviewed a photo of his dead body for Reuters. The experts' findings, based on the location and nature of the wound visible in the image, call into question statements by Chadian officials that Yaya Dillo was shot dead in an exchange of fire on February 28 when security forces tried to arrest him at his party's headquarters in the capital, N’Djamena. Professor Derrick Pounder, a U.K.-based pathologist…
