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a 1000 people killed in 2 days

hypocritexposer

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You'd think the UN would intervene

CATHOLIC charity Caritas says 1000 people have been killed or 'disappeared' in the western Ivory Coast town of Duekoue, where mass graves were reported found after heavy fighting.

The town was seized by fighters supporting president-in-waiting Alassane Ouattara after fierce battles on Tuesday, and reports have emerged of a grisly massacre and discovery of mass graves.

"Caritas teams visiting Duekoue in Ivory Cost are reporting a thousand people have been killed there or 'disappeared'," the charity said in a statement on its website.

Ouattara's forces were fighting to oust backers of strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to step down after losing November elections.

"The massacre took place in the 'Carrefour' quarter of town, controlled by pro-Ouattara forces, during clashes on Sunday March 27 to Tuesday March 29," the charity says.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/mass-graves-1000-dead-in-ivory-coast/story-e6frfkyi-1226032753695#ixzz1IUpqaC2S
 

Steve

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The African Union, the European Union, ECOWAS, the United Nations, the United States, and France were among the nations and international organizations that rejected Gbagbo's presidency. The International Monetary Fund stated they would only work with a government recognized by the United Nations,[32] which was assigned the duty of certifying presidential results as part of a 2007 peace deal.[33] On 8 December, the United Nations Security Council formally recognized Ouattara as the winner,

while it is not an issue I am familiar with, it appears the chosen leader of the UN, US and IMF is not leading by example..

Africa News UN pressures Ouattara over Ivory Coast massacres

"There is no doubt that something on a large scale took place in this city, on which the ICRC is continuing to gather information," she said, adding that Red Cross representatives had "themselves seen a very large number of bodies".

Guillaume N'Gefa from the human rights division of the UN mission in the country said that of 330 killed in the town earlier this week, most were victims of Ouattara forces

"330 people were killed between Monday and Wednesday ... the majority were executed by 'dozos'," said N'Gefa, referring to traditional hunters fighting in Ouattara's army.

but all is not as it seems...
There were widespread reports of looting.

"Militarily, I think it is over. But I don't think the situation is totally under control as there is likely to be lots of pillaging," a security source said, asking not to be named.

Meanwhile, the number of French and other foreigners sheltering at the French military base near the airport passed 1,500. Most had fled for fear of being attacked by the armed looters.
by all accounts this could have ended sooner, had the "rebels" not taken a looting/killing spree.
 

Steve

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You'd think the UN would intervene

with a little looking I was able to find the answer.,... the UN and the US is never allowed to intervene when it is muslims killing Christians..

The November poll had been supposed to consign to history the ghost of the 2002 civil war that divided the country into the rebel, mainly Muslim north and Christian south.
 

hypocritexposer

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Countries that are not falling into line are either being attacked, if the rebels are losing momentum, or being ignored, if the rebels are gaining momentum.

This has nothing to do with humanitarian rights in the ivory Coast or Libya.


Forty-nine countries participate in the US Africa Command, but not Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, and Ivory Coast. There is Western military intervention in these non-member countries except for Zimbabwe.



Ivory Coast, now embroiled in what is for all intents a civil war, with the West backing the armed groups of Alassane Ouattara against standing president Laurent Gbagbo and under the threat of foreign military intervention, likely by the AFRICOM- and NATO-supported West African Standby Force and possibly with direct Western involvement.

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/ivory-coast-testing-ground-for-u-s-backed-african-standby-force/
 

andybob

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Get a copy of "The Fear" by Peter Godwin, there is never a "squeak" out of the UN or the west over the ongoing atrocities committed by the Mugabe regime on the people of Zimbabwe.
 

hypocritexposer

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There appears to be a problem with the constitutionality of the election of Ouattara. The Constitution of Ivory coast states that a Presidential candidate's parents BOTH need to be citizens of the Country.

Ouattara's parents were not.


Statement by the President on Cote d’Ivoire

I remain deeply concerned by the security situation in Cote d’Ivoire. I strongly support the role that United Nations peacekeepers are playing as they enforce their mandate to protect civilians, and I welcome the efforts of French forces who are supporting that mission. Tragically, the violence that we are seeing could have been averted had Laurent Gbagbo respected the results of last year’s presidential election. To end this violence and prevent more bloodshed, former President Gbagbo must stand down immediately, and direct those who are fighting on his behalf to lay down their arms. Every day that the fighting persists will bring more suffering, and further delay the future of peace and prosperity that the people of Cote d’Ivoire deserve.

The people of Cote d’Ivoire have suffered too much throughout this period of unrest. The United States joins with the international community in our deep concern about reports of massacres in the western region of the country, and the dangers faced by innocent civilians – particularly the most vulnerable. All parties must show restraint and respect the rights of the Ivoirian people, and I welcome President Alassane Ouattara’s pledge to ensure accountability for those who have carried out attacks against civilians. Meanwhile, the United States will continue to support a future in which Laurent Gbagbo stands down, and President Ouattara and the government of Cote d’Ivoire can move beyond this current crisis and serve all of the Ivoirian people.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/05/statement-president-cote-d-ivoire


In the absence of disarmament, the Africa Union (AU) and UN Security Council approved the extension of President Laurent Gbagbo's term, which should have ended in October 2005, to October 2006. Then in November 2006, it was extended for another year, to November 2007. But, after the peace deal of 2007, knowing that the disarmament and reintegration conditions in particular were not being met, and fearing that enfranchisement might lead to electoral imbalance in favour of Ouattara, Gbagbo postponed the election to November 2008, and then postponed it a few more times. Finally, under pressure from the UN, France, and the US in particular, Gbagbo agreed to hold the election in November 2010, and allow Ouattara to run, even though he still did not satisfy the citizenship requirement. Also, Gbagbo agreed to a new Electoral Commission, headed by a Ouattara supporter, ostensibly to balance the Constitutional Council, whose membership he had appointed as president.

In France and in the Ivory Coast, and virtually every other former French colony, the Constitutional Council certifies and declares election results, after the Electoral Commission collates the results. These roles were not changed for the November 2010 presidential election in the Ivory Coast. This fact notwithstanding, the UN, with support from France, the US, and other western countries, encouraged the Electoral Commission to declare the election results - in contravention of the constitution and electoral laws of the Ivory Coast, but in the belief that it constituted the certification of election results that the UN was to do! The Constitutional Council, in the exercise of its constitutional and electoral duty of certifying the results, reviewed the complaints of Gbagbo's party, that in some provinces of the north the voter turnout had been as high as 150% of registered voters.

Having satisfied itself that these complaints were valid, the Constitutional Council invalidated the results of those provinces. Thus, two winners were proclaimed and sworn in as president – Ouattara, unconstitutionally by the Electoral Commission, and Gbagbo, constitutionally by the Constitutional Council.

In the interest of peace, the best course of action should have been the re-run of the election in the provinces invalidated by the Constitutional Council. The UN, France, and the US in particular, have rather been interested in installing Ouattara as president. Why?

First, we mustn't lose track of the fact that the leading supporters of Ouattara, who are Sarkozy and Obama, are both sons of immigrants who have become presidents of their nations, so they have an affinity for Ouattara from this shared background. Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant man who married a French Jew. And, as is well known, Obama is the son of a Kenyan student who married an American woman. But, both Sarkozy and Obama satisfied the citizenship requirements of their nations for running for president. Although Ouattara did not satisfy the citizenship requirements of Ivory Coast, Sarkozy and Obama pressurised and got Gbagbo to allow Ouattara to run on the argument that that was the only way of ensuring peace.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/323210/1/how-to-resolve-the-ivorian-crisis.html
 
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