The Ethiopian government has said it will launch an independent investigation into the killing of protesters by security forces during anti-government demonstrations in recent weeks.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, government spokesperson Getachew Reda insisted, however, that police violence in the country was “not systemic”.

“There are cases of off-grid police officers who sometimes take the law into their own hands,” he said. “The government takes such allegations very seriously.”

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