Duékoué (Ivory Coast), Special Envoy - From Niambli village, 3 km from Duékoué, there are only a few sections of mud walls charred. No soul. After yet another barrage of Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI) the president Alassane Ouattara, once passed the base of peacekeepers UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), the same spectacle is visible the outskirts of Duekoue from the national highway.
The district of Carrefour at the entrance to this city of 90,000 inhabitants in western Côte d'Ivoire, near Liberia, rich in coffee, bananas and cocoa, is also a phantom zone. Clothes on the roadside testify to a forced exodus and scrap looting. Niambli, Carrefour Duékoué. These are just two examples of alleged massacres committed in Darfur against civilians during the offensive flash men Alassane Ouattara from 28 March.
After four months of post-election crisis, hundreds of dead are an embarrassment for the new president, even before the inauguration of the man known integrated and moderate. He also promised to shed light on "all the massacres" during his televised address on Monday 11 April, following the arrest a few hours earlier, Laurent Gbagbo, the outgoing president, who preferred to turn deadly outbreaks Rather than acknowledge his defeat in the presidential election of novembre2010.
"All the massacres" therefore include those perpetrated in Duekoue when the city was under control FRCI. "We need that one has the courage to try them," confesses one of their colonels who prefers to remain anonymous, however. He knows only too well the difficulty of fighting in general, against impunity in the country.
So what about the fighters of the Forces Nouvelles, a former anti-Gbagbo rebels in 2002 renamed FRCI, since they were crowned winners of the prestige. Nevertheless, this is bloody conquest. "At the Crossroads of Duekoue, March 29, hundreds of men, young people, were sorted and culled. Killed in terms of their ethnic origin [Guéré] because considered supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, while his militiamen had left the city, "accused Tuesday in Duekoue, an investigator for Amnesty International.
On 1 April, a statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) already stated that "at least 800 people, March 29, were killed in communal violence in the Carrefour district of Duekoue. A few days later, the UN Commission for Human Rights reported other evidence showing that "the killings took place when the fighters supporting President Ouattara took control of Duekoue." Tuesday, April 12, survivors of Carrefour and surrounding villages (Diaouin, Guinglo, Dinhou, Dahe, among others) are crammed by the thousands (27,000 according to a census of the Temporary International Organization for Migration) and in miserable conditions in the concession of the Catholic mission in Duekoue, protected by tanks of UNOCI.
"Malaria, diarrhea, wounds machetes and bullets are the most common illnesses we fear a cholera epidemic, especially with the approach of the rainy season," concerned a coordinator of Doctors Without Borders. "The only satisfaction is that the number of displaced arriving decreases in recent days," observes Father Cyprian, the head of the Catholic mission.
But how to convince the displaced to return home? "My house was destroyed at the Crossroads by men who wanted power [not to mention Alassane Ouattara] and if I leave here I will be killed like a chicken," said Julian, a father born Guéré Duekoue. What we heard, a few hundred yards away, in the house of a victim, illustrate how difficult it will be to reconcile the communities in this agricultural region and immigration plagued by land disputes.
Konate Idriss, 43, was Malinke (or Jula). He was the imam of the neighborhood and was executed on the morning of Monday, March 28, and his stepfather Siriki Samassi, 79, shot in the head in the courtyard of the house by militiamen of Guéré Laurent Gbagbo. "They took our neighborhood by storm a few hours before.
Here, they killed my family and stole all our property. They are at home but it is we who have made the town and like all businesses. When they came in uniform or civilian clothes, they shouted: you, the Dioula, get out, we'll kill you all, where are the men? " Moussa Samassi remembers.
It owes its life until the arrival in the city, the same day in the afternoon, troops of Alassane Ouattara, who routed the militia. To hear Moussa Samassi, but also police, the killings the next day at the Carrefour, as fighting between the military had stopped, would the return of ancient evils.
"The Guéré are the most bloodthirsty of the country, Moussa Samassi loose. And militiamen have taken refuge at the Catholic mission. But I am in mourning and I must contain my emotions. "In the underground city, however, is openly welcomed the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo and the turn of events." The city is clean! Our children [FRCI] are there.
"Reconciliation will be difficult." It's not for me to do, "said Moussa Samassi, that Alassane Ouattara." Christophe Châtelot Article published in the 14.04. 11 
The district of Carrefour at the entrance to this city of 90,000 inhabitants in western Côte d'Ivoire, near Liberia, rich in coffee, bananas and cocoa, is also a phantom zone. Clothes on the roadside testify to a forced exodus and scrap looting. Niambli, Carrefour Duékoué. These are just two examples of alleged massacres committed in Darfur against civilians during the offensive flash men Alassane Ouattara from 28 March.
After four months of post-election crisis, hundreds of dead are an embarrassment for the new president, even before the inauguration of the man known integrated and moderate. He also promised to shed light on "all the massacres" during his televised address on Monday 11 April, following the arrest a few hours earlier, Laurent Gbagbo, the outgoing president, who preferred to turn deadly outbreaks Rather than acknowledge his defeat in the presidential election of novembre2010.
"All the massacres" therefore include those perpetrated in Duekoue when the city was under control FRCI. "We need that one has the courage to try them," confesses one of their colonels who prefers to remain anonymous, however. He knows only too well the difficulty of fighting in general, against impunity in the country.
So what about the fighters of the Forces Nouvelles, a former anti-Gbagbo rebels in 2002 renamed FRCI, since they were crowned winners of the prestige. Nevertheless, this is bloody conquest. "At the Crossroads of Duekoue, March 29, hundreds of men, young people, were sorted and culled. Killed in terms of their ethnic origin [Guéré] because considered supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, while his militiamen had left the city, "accused Tuesday in Duekoue, an investigator for Amnesty International.
On 1 April, a statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) already stated that "at least 800 people, March 29, were killed in communal violence in the Carrefour district of Duekoue. A few days later, the UN Commission for Human Rights reported other evidence showing that "the killings took place when the fighters supporting President Ouattara took control of Duekoue." Tuesday, April 12, survivors of Carrefour and surrounding villages (Diaouin, Guinglo, Dinhou, Dahe, among others) are crammed by the thousands (27,000 according to a census of the Temporary International Organization for Migration) and in miserable conditions in the concession of the Catholic mission in Duekoue, protected by tanks of UNOCI.
"Malaria, diarrhea, wounds machetes and bullets are the most common illnesses we fear a cholera epidemic, especially with the approach of the rainy season," concerned a coordinator of Doctors Without Borders. "The only satisfaction is that the number of displaced arriving decreases in recent days," observes Father Cyprian, the head of the Catholic mission.
But how to convince the displaced to return home? "My house was destroyed at the Crossroads by men who wanted power [not to mention Alassane Ouattara] and if I leave here I will be killed like a chicken," said Julian, a father born Guéré Duekoue. What we heard, a few hundred yards away, in the house of a victim, illustrate how difficult it will be to reconcile the communities in this agricultural region and immigration plagued by land disputes.
Konate Idriss, 43, was Malinke (or Jula). He was the imam of the neighborhood and was executed on the morning of Monday, March 28, and his stepfather Siriki Samassi, 79, shot in the head in the courtyard of the house by militiamen of Guéré Laurent Gbagbo. "They took our neighborhood by storm a few hours before.
Here, they killed my family and stole all our property. They are at home but it is we who have made the town and like all businesses. When they came in uniform or civilian clothes, they shouted: you, the Dioula, get out, we'll kill you all, where are the men? " Moussa Samassi remembers.
It owes its life until the arrival in the city, the same day in the afternoon, troops of Alassane Ouattara, who routed the militia. To hear Moussa Samassi, but also police, the killings the next day at the Carrefour, as fighting between the military had stopped, would the return of ancient evils.
"The Guéré are the most bloodthirsty of the country, Moussa Samassi loose. And militiamen have taken refuge at the Catholic mission. But I am in mourning and I must contain my emotions. "In the underground city, however, is openly welcomed the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo and the turn of events." The city is clean! Our children [FRCI] are there.
"Reconciliation will be difficult." It's not for me to do, "said Moussa Samassi, that Alassane Ouattara." Christophe Châtelot Article published in the 14.04. 11
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