Sunday, April 3, 2011

Caritas amounts to a thousand dead and missing in Ivory Coast

.- Caritas Internationalis has raised today about a thousand the number of dead or missing last Tuesday in a suburb of the city of Duekoue in western Ivory Coast, because of the violence wracking the country since the presidential election year past. In a statement on its website indicated that the data were developed by NGO staff in Ivory Coast who visited the city on 30 March.

The "slaughter" was held, added the note, in a neighborhood of the city controlled by forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the international community considered the winner of the 2010 presidential election. Caritas said they know who is responsible for the killings, but stressed that it is necessary to conduct an investigation to clarify what happened.

This latest death toll in that city provided by Caritas Internationalis further rises "over 800" yesterday denounced the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Caritas website conviction attacks on civilians and ensure that the humanitarian situation in Côte d'Ivoire deteriorates rapidly.

Ivory Coast is experiencing a civil war after the outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo will not accept handing over power to Alassane Ouattara, internationally recognized as the winner of the presidential election last November.

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