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Federal troops are wreaking havoc in the streets, people are being abducted and sent to prison camps — or disappeared entirely — and the military is executing orders to murder foreign civilians on the high seas.

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“Those guys executed it to perfection,” Roberts said.

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But Felix Jakens, Amnesty International UK's head of campaigns, said "goals and glory are distracting from executions and repression" after a record 345 people were executed in Saudi Arabia last year.

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"They created a lot of good chances and maybe if they had better composure in their final third to execute, they would have come out on top."

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“It’s really just focusing more on the same things and trying to execute as a whole,” Fitzgerald said.

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