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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Ivory Coast begins exhuming mass graves |
| 2013-04-05 |
| [Al Jizz] Ivorian authorities have begun exhuming dozens of mass graves dating back to the country's 2011 post-election violence. The exercise started on Thursday as a new report accused Alassane Ouattara ...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... , Ivory Coast's president, of failing to bring his supporters to justice for crimes they allegedly committed during the conflict. Justice Minister Gnenema Coulibaly presided over the exhumations, observing a moment of silence at the site before digging started at the first grave on the grounds of a mosque in Abidjan's Yopougon district. The grave contained the bodies of four men aged 17 to 35, who were killed at the height of the violence in April 2011 while defending the mosque against supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... More than 3,000 people died over a period of five months after Gbagbo refused to concede defeat to Ouattara in the November 2010 election. |
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