GENEVA, March 4 -- TANZANIA has denounced what it described as biased statements from several international partners and human rights organisations regarding violence linked to the October General Election, arguing that their interventions contain serious omissions of key facts.

The rebuttal was directed at statements issued by Belgium, Norway, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Sweden, Switzerland, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

“We firmly reject the selective and unsubstantiated nature of those interventions which misleadingly describe certain events while omitting reference to individuals and groups who openly called for disruption of the electoral process,” the countrys Permanent Representative to the...