Ivory Coast deaths 'ethnically motivated'
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more suffering, more war, more death. why are we in libya and threatening to put our boots on the ground there while doing nothing about this? double standards. either be the world cop or stay the hell out of other countries' conflicts entirely.
Ivory Coast deaths 'ethnically motivated'
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/823435 ... id-clashes
Ivory Coast's democratically elected leader says his forces will starve out the entrenched strongman who remains holed up underground at the presidential residence and that he'll focus on normalising life in the corpse-strewn, terrorised city of Abidjan.
As the political stalemate dragged on in Abidjan, there were new concerns about tensions erupting into deadly violence in the country's west.
The UN said more than 100 bodies have been found, and said some of the victims had been burned alive.
"All the incidents appear at least partly ethnically motivated," said Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
The International Rescue Committee is warning that chaos is permeating this West African nation once split in two by a 2002-2003 civil war, citing an "explosive mix of political, economic and ethnic tension."
"We're concerned that looting, hostility, bloodshed, reprisal killings and sexual assaults will escalate in communities across the country," said Louis Falcy, the IRC's country director in Ivory Coast.
Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of November elections, said on TV late on Thursday that his forces are setting up a security perimeter around the presidential compound where Laurent Gbagbo, who insists he won the elections, is staying with his family.
The goal, Ouattara said, is to wait for Gbagbo to run out of food and water.
Ouattara said his troops will work to secure Abidjan, where people have hidden inside their homes this week amid heavy fighting between troops loyal to Ouattara and those who are with Gbagbo.
The streets of Ivory Coast's biggest city and commercial centre were deserted on Friday.
Military vehicles had to negotiate around bodies lying in the streets.
An untold number of fighters and civilians have been killed in Abidjan in the past week.
UN and French forces have been attacking Gbagbo's weapons arsenal, which has been used against civilians during the four-month-long political standoff.
In his speech, Ouattara also sought to jump-start the economy of the world's largest cocoa producer, calling for banks to reopen on Monday and for the European Union to lift sanctions so that cocoa exports can resume, even as UN and French forces continue evacuating hundreds of foreigners from Abidjan neighbourhoods to guarded camps.
The UN said peacekeepers and human rights officials discovered about 60 bodies in the western town of Guiglo.
Rupert said another 40 corpses were found lying the street in Blolequin, and many of them had been shot.
Fifteen other bodies were found in Duekoue, where violence already has left at least 229 dead in recent weeks.
Rupert said mercenaries from neighbouring Liberia did some of the killings.
Liberia is still recovering from its own devastating civil war and human rights groups have expressed concern that Liberian ex-combatants were going to Ivory Coast as hired guns.
On Thursday, Gbagbo continued to insist he'd won the elections and stressed he would never leave the West African country he has ruled for the past 10 years.
Even before the November elections, he had overstayed his mandate by five years by continually postponing the vote.
"I reached the head of state and his wife less than an hour ago and no, he will not surrender. President Gbagbo will not cede," said his adviser Toussaint Alain by telephone from Paris.
"It's a question of principle. President Gbagbo is not a monarch. He is not a king. He is not an emperor. He is a president elected by his people."
Gbagbo was declared the loser both by his country's electoral body and by international observers including the United Nations.
Ivory Coast deaths 'ethnically motivated'
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/823435 ... id-clashes
Ivory Coast's democratically elected leader says his forces will starve out the entrenched strongman who remains holed up underground at the presidential residence and that he'll focus on normalising life in the corpse-strewn, terrorised city of Abidjan.
As the political stalemate dragged on in Abidjan, there were new concerns about tensions erupting into deadly violence in the country's west.
The UN said more than 100 bodies have been found, and said some of the victims had been burned alive.
"All the incidents appear at least partly ethnically motivated," said Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
The International Rescue Committee is warning that chaos is permeating this West African nation once split in two by a 2002-2003 civil war, citing an "explosive mix of political, economic and ethnic tension."
"We're concerned that looting, hostility, bloodshed, reprisal killings and sexual assaults will escalate in communities across the country," said Louis Falcy, the IRC's country director in Ivory Coast.
Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of November elections, said on TV late on Thursday that his forces are setting up a security perimeter around the presidential compound where Laurent Gbagbo, who insists he won the elections, is staying with his family.
The goal, Ouattara said, is to wait for Gbagbo to run out of food and water.
Ouattara said his troops will work to secure Abidjan, where people have hidden inside their homes this week amid heavy fighting between troops loyal to Ouattara and those who are with Gbagbo.
The streets of Ivory Coast's biggest city and commercial centre were deserted on Friday.
Military vehicles had to negotiate around bodies lying in the streets.
An untold number of fighters and civilians have been killed in Abidjan in the past week.
UN and French forces have been attacking Gbagbo's weapons arsenal, which has been used against civilians during the four-month-long political standoff.
In his speech, Ouattara also sought to jump-start the economy of the world's largest cocoa producer, calling for banks to reopen on Monday and for the European Union to lift sanctions so that cocoa exports can resume, even as UN and French forces continue evacuating hundreds of foreigners from Abidjan neighbourhoods to guarded camps.
The UN said peacekeepers and human rights officials discovered about 60 bodies in the western town of Guiglo.
Rupert said another 40 corpses were found lying the street in Blolequin, and many of them had been shot.
Fifteen other bodies were found in Duekoue, where violence already has left at least 229 dead in recent weeks.
Rupert said mercenaries from neighbouring Liberia did some of the killings.
Liberia is still recovering from its own devastating civil war and human rights groups have expressed concern that Liberian ex-combatants were going to Ivory Coast as hired guns.
On Thursday, Gbagbo continued to insist he'd won the elections and stressed he would never leave the West African country he has ruled for the past 10 years.
Even before the November elections, he had overstayed his mandate by five years by continually postponing the vote.
"I reached the head of state and his wife less than an hour ago and no, he will not surrender. President Gbagbo will not cede," said his adviser Toussaint Alain by telephone from Paris.
"It's a question of principle. President Gbagbo is not a monarch. He is not a king. He is not an emperor. He is a president elected by his people."
Gbagbo was declared the loser both by his country's electoral body and by international observers including the United Nations.
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Agreed. Especially when our government doesn't even have money to take care of its own problems.
agreed..it's all or none
but we here in the good ol U S of A have our own agenda, right?
its going on everywhere..why do we just recognize libya?
people never seem to want to dig any deeper than the surface on any of these issues
it would mean feeling uncomfortable...
or god forbid speaking out
and well. who has time for that right? :roll:
either we are the world police, or we're not.
this picking and choosing just won't do.
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