Sunday, April 3, 2011

More than 1,000 civilians have been killed in a western Ivory Coast town

By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press

The United Nations and the government it supports in embattled Ivory Coast are trading accusations over the killings of hundreds of civilians in a western town.

The U.N. accused hunters fighting in a force to install democratically elected President Alassane Ouattara of "extra-judicial executions" of more than 330 people in Duekoue.

Ouattara's government Saturday night accused U.N. peacekeepers of abandoning civilians there to vengeful militiamen fighting for incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to accept his election defeat.

The Catholic charity Caritas said more than 1,000 were killed over three days last week in one Duekoue neighborhood controlled by pro-Ouattara forces. Caritas said they did not know who did the killing.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/02/international/i025845D60.DTL&tsp=1

1 comment:

  1. Can some one tell me why human life is so worthless in Africa?
    If only they had oil as in Libya....

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