Ivory Coast is the UN impartial ?

Leaked French Documents Show Cote d'Ivoire Strategy at UN of France on Liberia, Mali & Even San Francisco

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive

UNITED NATIONS, April 8, updated -- With Cote d'Ivoire's defiant Laurent Gbagbo surrounded after French and UN military action in Abidjan's Cocody neighborhood, internal French government documents obtained by Inner City Press and published exclusively today paint a picture of France's communications with the UN Mission UNOCI, its analysis of the politics of Guillaume Soro, Liberia and the Malian press, even its recycling of a French diplomat arrested in New York as France's new general consul in San Francisco.

In the first document, France's Force Licorne (Unicorn) wrote to the Special Representative of the Secretary General about Gbagbo's import of heavy weapons. Click here to view. More recently, France is accused of violating the arms embargo by providing and facilitating weapons to the forces of Alassane Ouattara.

The second document is an internal French cable detailing the Financial Organization of the Rebellion, down to a “racket” of shaking down money for taxi licenses.

In the third document, France bemoans the failure of a visit of three African heads of state to Cote d'Ivoire, including Nigeria's Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki now active in Sudan, complaining that this situation can be prolonged until the international community decided to “impose a solution.”

In the fourth document, France analyzed and critiques South African policy toward Cote d'Ivoire and Gbagbo.

In the fifth document, France analyzes Liberia's foreign policy as pro-American. More recently, a purported interview of a Ouattara commander describing coordinating with a French citizen working with the UN Mission in Liberia has surfaced.

In the sixth document, France analyzes the “discrete attitude” of the Malian press.

In the largest set of documents published today -- there are more -- France details its work in the UN Security Council on resolutions concerning the UN mission UNOCI.

One of the French diplomats involved was Romain Serman, who was later arrested by the New York Police Department. See arrest sheet and signed statement, here. Then French Ambassador de la Sabliere, to “avoid a scandal,” sent Serman back to Paris.

But in 2010 he was re-assigned to the US, as general consul in San Francisco. And so it goes.

Update at 1pm, April 8: at the UN noon briefing, Inner City Press asked Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Martin Nesirky to describe how UNOCI has allowed Licorne to lobby it and attend its meetings, and if other countries have been allowed. 

  Nesirky said he would not comment on leaked documents, and also directed Inner City Press to ask the (French) chief of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy. Watch this site.

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At UN on Cote d'Ivoire, Buzz of Martyrdom, Arms Embargo Violations, Duekoue Fog

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 7 -- The talk at the UN about Cote d'Ivoire on Thursday was confused, ranging from predictions of Laurent Gbagbo's impending martyrdom to a few belated hopes, of continued support from Angola and even a Permanent Five member of the Security Council, dissatisfaction by South Africa which was said to be sending 100 special forces troops.

  At a Russian Mission to the UN space event Thursday afternoon, Inner City Press spoke with a dozen Ambassadors about Cote d'Ivoire. Some were most concerned with their own diplomats still trapped in Abidjan. Others spoke of reports of arms shipments to Gbagbo to airports outside of Abidjan.

  At the day's noon briefing, Inner City Press asked Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Martin Nesirky for the UN's response to the Canard Enchaine article reporting that France armed Ouattara's forces, who were allowed to sell gold and buy weapons in violation of the embargo.

  The article also describes helicopters of the UN or Force Licorne blowing up a supermarket in Cocody.

  Nesirky refused to answer about violations of the arms embargo, and of Cocody said that the UN was defending itself and taking out heavy weapons. But who gave Ouattara his brand new heavy weapons?

  Inner City Press asked top UN humanitarian Valerie Amos, fresh back from Duekoue, to respond to criticism of the UN peacekeepers for not moving to protect civilians there, and to Ouattara envoy Yousoufou Bamba's characterization of the NGO Caritas as “pro-Gbagbo” for alleging 1000 dead.

  Strikingly, Amos told Inner City Press to ask Caritas about its numbers. But what about the attack on this NGO as being biased pro-Gbagbo? Amos would only say that the UN works with Caritas - she would not criticize, apparently, anything on the Ouattara side, including broadsides against humanitarian NGOs.

  Previously, Amos had told Inner City Press she hadn't heard about the lack of medicine in Abidjan due to the EU sanctions that led to no ships in the port.

  While she spoke Thursday about the independence of humanitarian work, for the UN right now, at least in Cote d'Ivoire, it all seems to move in lockstep. The unanswered questions is not if but now badly this will impact the UN's credibility going forward. Watch this site.

  From the UN's April 7 transcript:

Inner City Press: On Côte d'Ivoire, there was obviously, there is this incident of the French freeing the Japanese ambassador; I am wondering if you have, if the UN played any role in that.  And also that the Canard Enchaîné has come out with a report saying, among other things, that the helicopter attacks — it doesn’t say whether it was UN or French — blew up a supermarket in Cocody and that, essentially implying that France has been arming the [Alassane] Ouattara forces in violation of the arms embargo for some years.  And I wanted to know what the UN’s response is to that pretty detailed article.

Spokesperson Nesirky:  On the first, the operations that have been going on to help evacuate diplomats and other civilians are obviously coordinated.  As I mentioned to you, UN Mission staff peacekeepers went to the Novotel hotel, where journalists have staying and they had requested assistance.  So, obviously it is coordinated; and either Licorne — the French forces — or UN peacekeepers are carrying out missions; it depends on the location and a number other factors.  On the reports that you referred to, I would simply say that the operation that has been carried out was specifically aimed at preventing the use of heavy weapons and that’s what took place.  So, what’s your next question?

Inner City Press: I have just one follow-up on that.  Does the UN have any knowledge of France providing weapons to the pro-Ouattara forces?

Spokesperson Nesirky:  I have said what I have to say, Matthew

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As Juppe Says Ban Demands Gbagbo Letter, UN No Comments, Vatican & Japan Q

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 6 -- A day after French foreign minister Alain Juppe said that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agrees that Laurent Gbagbo must sign a letter ceding power to Alassane Ouattara, Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky if that is, in fact, Ban's position.

“I don't speak for the French Foreign Minister,” Nesirky said.

“But you do speak for the Secretary General,” Inner City Press asked. Is it Ban's position or not?

Nesirky would not answer, saying he would not characterize the Secretary General's communications with Juppe. Thus does the UN thumbs its nose at transparency and lose credibility, by being used as Juppe used Ban, and France used UNOCI.

Inner City Press was told by a Security Council member's Deputy Permanent Representative that UN peacekeepers have not gotten to the residences in Abidjan of the representative of the Vatican as well as the Japanese Ambassador.

Ban & Juppe, joint demand of letter as condition not shown

 It was unclear, he said, which side was blocking access -- noting that it is Vatican charity Caritas which reported 1000 dead in Duekoue, which many largely blame on supporters of Ouattara.

Nesirky would not answer about which side is blocking access, although he repeatedly blamed the UN's failure to even protect journalists in a hotel on “heavy weapons.”

Inner City Press asked him if Ouattara's forces have heavy weapons too. Nesirky would not answer. He repeatedly insisted that the UN is impartial. Watch this site.Click for Mar 1, '11 BloggingHeads.tv re Libya, Sri Lanka, UN Corruption

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An African Jew to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli people

 

As a Jewish of African origin precisely Ivory Coast(and you probably  heard of the small Jewish community in West Africa, Mali , Senegal , Ivory Coast , Ghana, Nigeria etc) I  would like to ask a Question to Mr Premier Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and all the Israeli people.  How many Jewish during the holocaust, in the second world war traveled legally when fleeing  death and persecution to  seek refuge in other countries ? To my knowledge most Jewish got in other countries illegally as most refugees  have been doing and still  doing today . So I would like to understand what the Israelis mean by illegal immigrant within the asylum seekers ? It would wise not only because of our history but also our faith regarding who we were in Egypt and how to treat strangers , to review this decision and go through it case by case. The Ivorian issue is very delicate , we have those who allegedly  had fled persecution  from President Gbagbo whom unless they have some attach in the country such as kid work, Israeli spouses or partners etc who  should be asked if they would like to go back or stay  since their candidate is in "power" now and their lives are no longer in "danger". Then we have those who fled the new regime whom in no way can be taken back to their country for many reasons. Not only that it's against all  law , whether national or international , but it more than immoral and  against the Torah to send back people who are fleeing death. We all know who is Mr Ouattara and what's he's doing right now we are not going to go back to the defilement of the holocaust memorial when he was invited to not only enter it but leave a flower. A genocide, ethnic cleansing perpetrator in the holocaust memorial an insult to G-d. to Israel,and  the Jewish people as well as  the memory of the victims. My point is that  Mr Premier Minister and the Israel in whole should think again about the decision to sent all the so called illegal immigrants back. before we regret this action throughout the all history of Israel and the Jewish people.  We should go through in case by case and not randomly.  We are already called apartheid state, soon we'll be called Nazi , and Blacks haters. Shabbath Shalom.

 Am Yisrael Chai

Patrick Ben Ballot Cohen

On behalf of foreigners? (The Chronicle of Joseph Marat)28 June 2012 @ 8:05

"The rural land consists of all land developed or not and whatever the nature of the development. It is a national heritage which any person or entity can access. However, only the State, public authorities and individuals are admitted to Ivorian be owners "and is stated in section 1 of the 1998 law on rural land. He sums up the spirit and all the political will to protect the heritage rural land against any prevarication and all conflicts that may arise between individuals competing for membership. Before his declination is on all the conditionalities of appropriation, the law is clear: the earth belongs to the state. An individual who wants to appropriate a parcel must be Ivorian after fulfilling certain conditions of course acquisition. This law which ends the legal heresy of Houphouetism who wanted the land belongs to he who exploit it, was voted unanimously by the member of the Parliament  of 1998 legislature. It is this law that Alassane Ouattara  government wants to change , in a kind of dubious precipitation to blame.
How? The main argument he advances against this law is that it stinks Ivoirité. A law passed by an Ivorian parliament should it have a smell other than 'ivorian ? Why should the  Ivorian parliamentarians legislate laws of ECOWAS? Beyond these questions that reveal the absurdity of the current "government" approach, there is the whole issue of interests of the Ivorian people in its own territory. We understand, with these absurd claims for favoritism to non-nationals, under the pretext that the "Ivoriity£ was war made on the Ivorians just because they are Ivorians. Since the concept in question here, to divert a national law has no meaning other than "being Ivorian." In sum, Ouattara and his government want to say that this land law is not good because it is Ivorian. It was war on every regime since Bedie pretext that they are "ivoiritarians". The Marcoussis agreements have forced the Ivory Coast to naturalize more than three million Burkinabe to end the alleged Ivorians "xenophobia".
Today it hardly takes gloves for despoiling them of their lands. We originally thought that the destroyers of the concept of Ivorian identity were in good faith and attacked its vicious forms. We are forced to face the facts today that it is the very fact of being Ivorian which is threatened in any reform that seeks to start Alassane Ouattara. Because nowhere is there a leader who is so committed to fighting against  the interests of his people for the benefit of another. A candidate for the  presidency had said that his opponent was a candidate of the foreigners . Little did we think it could be literally true.
Joseph Marat

Au nom des étrangers? (La chronique de Joseph Marat)

28 June 2012 @ 8:05

« Le domaine foncier rural est constitué par l’ensemble des terres mises en valeur ou non et quelle que soit la nature de la mise en valeur. Il constitue un patrimoine national auquel toute personne physique ou morale peut accéder. Toutefois seuls l’Etat, les collectivités publiques et les personnes physiques ivoiriennes sont admises à en être propriétaires » ainsi est stipulé l’article 1 de la loi de 1998 sur le foncier rural. Il en résume l’esprit et toute la volonté politique de protéger le patrimoine foncier rural contre toute prévarication et tous les conflits qui pourraient naitre entre des particuliers disputant son appartenance. Avant toute sa déclinaison qui situe sur toutes les conditionnalités d’appropriation, la loi est claire : la terre appartient à l’Etat. Le particulier qui veut s’en approprier une parcelle doit être ivoirien après avoir rempli évidemment certaines conditions d’acquisition. Cette loi qui met fin à l’hérésie juridique de l’houphouëtisme qui voulait que la terre appartienne à celui qui la met en valeur, a été voté à l’unanimité des députés de la législature de 1998. C’est à cette loi que le gouvernement d’Alassane Ouattara veut, dans une sorte de précipitation douteuse, s’en prendre.
Comment ? Le principal argument qu’il avance contre cette loi est qu’elle pue l’ivoirité. Une loi votée par un parlement ivoirien devrait-elle avoir une odeur autre qu’ivoirienne ? Pourquoi des parlementaires ivoiriens devraient-ils légiférer sur des lois de la CEDEAO ? Au-delà de ces interrogations qui révèlent l’absurdité de la démarche gouvernementale actuelle, il y a toute la problématique des intérêts du peuple ivoirien sur son propre territoire. On comprend, avec ces revendications saugrenues pour des passe-droits à des non-nationaux, que sous le prétexte de l’ivoirité on a fait la guerre aux Ivoiriens rien que parce qu’ils sont Ivoiriens. Puisque le concept mis en cause ici, pour dévoyer une loi nationale, n’a pas d’autre signification que « le fait d’être ivoirien ». En somme, Ouattara et son gouvernement veulent dire que cette loi sur le foncier n’est pas bonne parce qu’elle est ivoirienne. On a fait la guerre à tous les régimes depuis Bédié sous prétexte qu’ils sont ivoiritaires. Les accords de Marcoussis ont obligé la Côte d’ivoire à naturaliser plus de trois millions de burkinabé pour mettre fin à la « xénophobie » des Ivoiriens.
Aujourd’hui on prend à peine des gants pour les spolier de leurs terres. Nous avons cru au départ que les pourfendeurs du concept de l’ivoirité étaient de bonne foi et s’attaquaient à ses formes vicieuses. Nous sommes obligés de nous rendre à l’évidence aujourd’hui que c’est le fait même d’être ivoirien qui est menacé dans toutes les reformes que veut initier Alassane Ouattara. Parce que nulle part il n’existe un chef d’Etat qui soit si engagé à combattre les intérêts de son peuple au profit d’un autre. Un candidat à l’élection présidentielle avait dit que son adversaire était un candidat de l’étranger. Nous étions loin de penser que cela pouvait être aussi vrai au sens propre.

Joseph Marat

Ivory Coast Incredible Revelations about the death of seven UN peacekeepers

 

On 8 June , in the Taï region, on the axis Tai-Para,at the Ivorian-Liberian border, an attack by gunmen killed at least 20 dead, including seven peacekeepers of the UN mission in Cote d ' ivory. The attack plunged the national and international community in turmoil. And provoked strong condemnations around the world. An investigation by the UN and is ongoing, according to the mission of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI). "The investigation that led the UN` s attack on 8 June against the peacekeepers patrol on the axis Tai Para continues, "it said Thursday, June 14th, the spokesman of UNOCI, Sylvie van den Wildenberg, `during a news conference. According to Ms. Wildenberg, the procedure provides "multiple phases" with the first preliminary investigation "conducted by UNOCI's Force with the support of other mission components, reports Xinhua. "It is being finalized," says the spokesman for the UN mission in Abidjan. At the country's new authorities, the authors are all been  found. This is "the pro-Gbagbo Liberian mercenaries." 12th June ,  on Ivorian television , the Minister of State Minister of the Interior has not been praying to describe the "bad seeds". Ahmed Bakayoko linked the attack in the west to civilian and military figures close to President Laurent Gbagbo, some are put under arrest well before the ambush in the West.This is among other things Moise Lida Kouassi, Colonel Katee Gnatoa ... Since then, these figures continue to be detainedunder arrests and  are still continuing in the business of "destabilization". On Saturday, June 23, 2012, we received a phone call. The caller,  had a male voice his initials AM as presented to us  as native of  Saho, one of three villages (with Para and Nigré) near the border with Liberia. AM has just arrived fresh from Saho where he can no longer supports the prevailing insecurity. We take an appointment with him, in Yopougon,  on  Saturday morning. "Thanks for coming to meet me," he gratifies us with a voice still tied with emotion. "I am the son of Saho and I would like to share with you what is happening in my village, over the death of seven (7) of UNOCI peacekeepers. I can tell you that these soldiers were not killed by so-called pro-Gbagbo Liberian mercenaries. "Are you sure of what you say then? We replicated. "I can confirm" AM meets with insurance before continuing. "These are elements of FRCI who killed soldiers of the UN. Everything started from the distribution of gains from the sale of stolen coffee and cocoa. When these elements FRCI  in the area want to steal the products of our harvests, they fire shots in the air. In the ensuing fleeing , for fear of being killed, the villagers rush to take refuge in the bush. Once the camps and villages emptied of their inhabitants, these FRCI collect all stocks of our products they will hide somewhere. Unable to load their trucks at the risk of detection is then  that  their accomplices who are soldiers of UNOCI intervene .The latter charge our products in their tanks that no other force can  arrest or search. Then they start selling them to wholesalers through trackers. Dividends are distributed among the different actors of looting. But before June 8, we knew that there was a dispute  between the elements FRCI those of UNOCI peacekeepers. There were bad and sharing them FRCI felt frustrated. Two or three days before the "ambush" they promised to avenge themselves  with verbal threats. They did not  longer want to have their accomplices peacekeepers  who are beyond their control.  " This AM story gives the attacks of Para, and Saho Nigré. the limelight Other sources, specifically from Nigré corroborated this thesis settling of scores between looters and UN FRCI. D.H. is from Para. When we come back in phone contact with him is that he supports bluntly: "When the elements of FRCI want to strip us of our products, including coffee and cocoa, they first pull shots to deter. Woe to him who does not leak! Once the village emptied of its people, these thieves can indulge in looting.After they will share between them and their accomplices of UNOCI that cover them. " These denunciations are quite revealing. Indeed, this is the first time since the attack of Saho, Para and Nigré which killed 20 people, that parents of victims sharing their account in the press, even if it's under cover of anonymity. We think it would be useful for investigators to consider this new evidence made unprecedented to expand their field of investigation.Bertina SoroSource: Le Temps

Deux semaines après l’attaque de l’ouest: Révélations sur la mort des sept Casques bleus onusiens

27 June 2012 @ 9:5

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Le 8 juin dernier, dans la région de Taï, sur l’axe Tai-Para, à la frontière ivoiro-libérienne, une attaque d’hommes armés a fait au moins 20 morts dont sept casques bleus de la mission onusienne en Côte d’Ivoire. Cette attaque a plongé la communauté nationale et internationale dans l’émoi. Et suscité de vives réprobations à travers le monde. Une enquête est ouverte par l’Onu et se poursuit, selon la mission l’Opération des nations unies en Côte d’Ivoire (Onuci). «L’enquête que mènent les Nations unies sur l`attaque perpétrée le 8 juin contre la patrouille de Casques bleus sur l’axe Taï-Para se poursuit», indiquait le jeudi 14 juin, la porte-parole de l’Onuci, Sylvie van den Wildenberg, lors d`une conférence de presse. Selon Mme Wildenberg, la procédure prévoit “plusieurs phases «avec tout d’abord l’enquête préliminaire» menée par la Force de l’Onuci avec l’appui d’autres composantes de la Mission, rapporte l’agence Xinhua. «Elle est en voie de finalisation», assure la porte-parole de la mission onusienne à Abidjan. Au niveau des nouvelles autorités du pays, les auteurs sont tout trouvés. Il s’agit «des mercenaires libériens pro-Gbagbo». Le 12 juin, passant sur les antennes de la télévision ivoirienne, le ministre d’Etat ministre de l’Intérieur ne s’est pas fait prier pour désigner les «mauvais grains». Ahmed Bakayoko a lié l’attaque de l’ouest aux personnalités civiles et militaires proches du Président Laurent Gbagbo, dont certains sont mises aux arrêts dans la foulée et bien avant l’embuscade de l’Ouest.
Il s’agit entre autres de Lida Kouassi Moise, du Colonel Katé Gnatoa… Depuis, ces personnalités continuent d’être détenues et des arrestations se poursuivent toujours dans le cadre des affaires de «déstabilisation». Le samedi 23 juin 2012, nous recevons un coup de fil. Au téléphone, une voix masculine A.M. de ses initiales se présente à nous comme étant fils de Saho, un des trois villages (avec Para et Nigré) proches de la frontière avec le Libéria. A.M arrive fraîchement de Saho où il ne supporte plus l’insécurité ambiante. Nous prenons rendez-vous avec lui, à Yopougon, ce samedi matin. «Merci d’être venu à ma rencontre», gratifie-t-il avec une voix encore nouée d’émotion. «Je suis fils de Saho et je voudrais partager avec vous, ce qui se passe dans mon village, par rapport à la mort des sept (7) casques bleus de l’Onuci. Je peux vous dire que ces soldats n’ont pas été tués par des soi-disant mercenaires libériens pro-Gbagbo».
Etes-vous sûr de ce que vous avancez-là? Nous répliquons. «je vous le confirme» répond A.M. avec assurance avant de poursuivre. «Ce sont des éléments des Frci qui ont tué les soldats de l’Onu. Tout est parti de la répartition des gains suite à la vente du café et du cacao volés. Quand ces éléments Frci de la zone veulent voler les produits de nos récoltes, ils tirent des coups en l’air. Dans la débandande qui s’en suit, de peur d’être tués, les villageois courent se réfugier dans la brousse. Une fois que les villages et campements vidés de leurs habitants, ces Frci ramassent tous les stocks de nos produits qu’ils vont cacher quelque part. Ne pouvant pas les charger dans leurs camions au risque de se faire repérer, c’est alors qu’interviennent leurs complices qui sont des soldats de l’Onuci.
Ces derniers chargent nos produits dans leurs chars qu’aucune autre force ne peut arrêter ni fouiller. Ensuite ils partent les vendre à des grossistes par l’intermédiaire des pisteurs. Les dividendes sont repartis entre les différents acteurs du pillage. Mais avant le 8 juin, nous savions qu’un différend opposait les éléments Frci à ceux des casques bleus de l’Onuci. Il y a eu mauvais partage entre eux et les Frci se sont sentis frustrés. Deux ou trois jours avant «l’embuscade» ils promettaient de se venger avec des menaces verbales. Ils ne voulaient plus avoir des complices des casques bleus qu’ils ne maîtrisent pas». Ce récit de A.M. remet au centre de l’actualité les attaques de Para, Saho et Nigré.
D’autres sources, en provenance précisément de Nigré ont corroboré cette thèse de règlement de compte entre pillards onusiens et Frci. D.H. est originaire de Para. Quand nous rentrons en contact téléphonique avec lui, c’est sans ambages qu’il soutient : «Quand les éléments des Frci veulent nous déposséder des nos produits, café et cacao notamment, ils commencent par tirer des coups de feu pour dissuader. Gare à celui qui ne fuit pas! Une fois le village vidé de ses populations, ces voleurs peuvent se livrer aux actes de pillage.
Après ils vont partager entre eux et leurs complices de l’Onuci qui les couvrent». Ces dénonciations sont assez révélatrices. En effet, c’est la première fois depuis l’attaque de Saho, Para et Nigré qui a fait 20 morts, que des parents de victimes se confient à la presse, même si c’est sous le couvert de l’anonymat. Nous pensons qu’il ne serait pas inutile pour les enquêteurs de tenir compte de cette nouvelle donne faite des témoignages inédits afin d’élargir leur champ d’investigation.
Bertina Soro
Source: Le Temps

Ivorians accuse the UN and HRW planning a genocide as fearful thousands flee Ivory Coast attacks near Liberia border,

 Ivorians accuse the UN and HRW planning a genocide as fearful thousands flee Ivory Coast attacks near Liberia border, but who would listen ?



More than 13,000 people have fled their homes in southwestern Ivory Coast following attacks in which unidentified armed men killed at least 22 people, including seven U.N. peacekeepers, this month, a U.N. official said Thursday.
Residents around the town of Tai are “traumatized” and in “constant fear and panic,” said Ute Kollies, the head of the U.N. humanitarian agency in Ivory Coast.

“We have recorded five attacks since the beginning of June, and given the rumors floating around, everyone is fearful of what might happen next,” Kollies said. She said in some villages all of the homes have been destroyed.
U.N. peacekeepers and Ivorian soldiers are patrolling but Kollies said the densely forested Liberia border area needs to be secured further in order to protect the population and provide safe corridors for delivery of aid supplies.
All of the displaced people are living with host families, Kollies said. “There are in some cases 15 to 20 people living with a family of five,” she said.
The  putschist government imposed by the powerful multinational and there trading representative at the head of western countries falsely has blamed the attacks on allegedly former militia groups or mercenaries loyal to Ivory Coast’s  legal legitimate democratically elected president Laurent Gbagbo whose  opponent Alassane Dramane Ouattara refusal to proceed at  recounting of the rigged votes in his stronghold  in a 2010 election sparked six months of violence. Gbagbo is now illegally imprisoned at The Hague. war crimes charges  after been arrested by French Army in the role hit squad on behalf of the Multinationals mafia.

So what is actually happening according to the Ivorian, it's a plot from the same multinationals using all king of trick to dispossess the  people of the We people from there classified land which one of the richest in the world( good for Cocoa,gumtree, diamond , gold and other  minerals and give it to the Burkinabe whom with the complicity of the UN and the blind eyes  of HRW are attacking the population. This macabre strategy is to send armed Burkinabe and dozo mercenary unpaid by the putschist (after been recruited  to invade Abidjan in order to take power by the means of weapons) to go and claim land which according to the pustchist belong to no one , in order to get their money back. Ttese lawless criminals then kill the villagers and land owners the rest of the population then flee and the lands are taken by the invaders. The stubborns who refuse to leave are killed , that's the genocide and ethnic cleansing  the UN and the HRW in one way or the other  are about to take another height when the HRW and the UN claim that   allegedly pro Gbagbo militia are involved in order to have a big military intervention helpig to speed up the ethnic cleansing and the genocide.. It well known from everyone in those area that most of  the armed conflict are between  different fractions of Burkinabe mercenaries over war booty to be more specific land after the owners have fled the terror or attack on village by the same mercenaries . So in order to protect their newly stolen lands these bandits are ready to kill anyone in sight and since they are in majority non educated they can shoot at their own allied such as the UN or Ivorian troops.. Yes the UN and HRW are planning a simple and  pure genocide but  would listen the Ivorian  or help before is too late, ? It seems like we  prefer having  big charity concerts to raise money after the genocide ? Or shall we rather denounce right now and in urgency  this crimes which involves our politicians playing the Pr of the multinationals mafia. ?

HRW prépare le génocide des Wè et l’occupation définitive des terres de l’Ouest de la Cote D'ivoire !

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Inner City Press: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations

Inner City Press: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations

Ivory Coast - 11th most failing state, according to Foreign Policy

Ivory Coast - 11th most failing state, according to Foreign Policy http://www.foreignpolicy.com/failed_states_index_2012_interactive #civ

 

The Silent accomplices

There have been a silence on the situation in Ivory Coast , worsen since the putsch of the UN / French coalition to overthrow le legal , legitimate President democratically elected Mr Laurent Gbagbo. As a matters of fact  for a dispute   of "classified forest" at Bloléquin (STILL in a city in Ivory Coast, where according to the Bedie's Land Code in 1998  no foreigner can own land in our country) 2 groups of "Burkinabe clash "

ALL  HAS BEN SAID : And it is clear that DRAMANE continues its slaughter of our parents from Western countries to "give" our land to his parents from Burkina.-Faso Is that why the so called international community who imposed him by a putsch is silent on the continuing murders . kidnapping , extra judiciary arrest etc in order to make a deal with the bandits from BF ? Well may G-d bless you(Western medias, politicians, or men of law and Human Right NGOs) for your silence on this ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in the West of Ivory Coast. Meanwhile we are over flooded with by distorted news   from Syria. where armed(by the West) rebels committing  crimes which are blamed on the government has became the present blanket  covering the Ivory Coast case which seems classified in advance. .Giving the economical benefit  all the multinationals(Cocoa, Gumtree , Diamant. Gold, etc) a complicity by silence  will pay better than denouncing  this genocide of  this  negroes  specially when some of them clam to be of Jeswish(Dan) origin.

An African head of state, "Gbagbo won the elections but the westerns did not want him" (Alain Dogou book)

An African head of state, "Gbagbo won the elections but the whites did not want him" (Alain Dogou book)
Writing by    alain-dogou           on 26/06/12 at 8:39

An essential book, written by a man who was at the heart of the war post-election that saw, heard and experienced moments and obtained data particularly illuminating. "My truth about the plot against Gbagbo" Alain Dogou, Defense Minister of the Government N'Gbo Ake deserves to be read and highlighted. Edited by L'Harmattan, along just under 180 pages, it is characterized by the large number of first-hand revelations it contains. Of embarrassing revelations for Choi Young-jin, the former head of UNOCI - who had promised to review a book of stories to be published by Jeune Afrique, which was never released - and for peacekeepers and officials of the Glass House in New York, but also Louis Moreno-Ocampo and the prosecutor's office of the Criminal Court, whose argument is often being undermined so difficult to refute.  Dogou 's book is edifying book of secrets from the inside, on matters within the political, military and diplomatic. We deliver here, as in yesterday's edition, some "good stories" of this precious book.When UNOCI "manufactured" mass graves
"The division of Human Rights of UNOCI has crossed the Rubicon by posting on the website of the mission that mass graves were up in the area N'dotré, near the town of Anyama but that the sites they were forbidden to visit the soldiers favorable to Laurent Gbagbo. A former member of Norway, Lars Ruse, who was previously an election observer in several countries on behalf of the European Parliament has decided itself to come to Ivory Coast to see firsthand the serious crimes that were denounced by the mission of UN. When he arrived in Ivory Coast, he asked the Interior Minister to issue a "pass" to go everywhere, especially on the supposed site of incorporation of the mass graves that were banned from visiting the UN mission. The interior minister, Emile Guirieoulou reported to the former member as a "pass" does not exist in the nomenclature of documents issued by his office. But if it were to produce a custom, it would only be valid in the territory under government control N'Gbo Ake, especially since atrocities and serious crimes were current in the northern part of the Ivorian territory under control of rebel forces.At her insistence, the Minister has Guirieoulou design a document tailored to the Norwegian MP. This, according to his remarks published by several national television and media after a press conference he organized, visited the headquarters of UNOCI to present his "pass "and asked the authors of the publication of information relating to restraining orders, to accompany him on the sites of mass graves in question. In response, officials of UNOCI would have said no there was nothing and that the information of the ban on visiting the alleged mass grave sites they have uploaded to the Internet was unfounded. The MEP had been so outraged that he held a press conference to denounce what he himself described as "irresponsible media manipulation of UNOCI" (...) Faced with accusations of MEP to clearance, 17 March 2011, the UN mission in Cote d'Ivoire issued a statement that I fully appreciated the content: "The 12 and 13 March 2011, UNOCI sent two (2) teams investigating allegations of mass grave N'dotré. In result, there was no identified place that can accommodate a mass grave, or traces of mass graves (...) investigation teams found no body in the morgue nearing completion where we reported body preserved. " "
 When UNOCI invented false reports
"The last straw in serious breaches of UNOCI is to have developed a false report to voluntarily mislead the Security Council of the UN in order to snatch a resolution to condemn and punish the lawful government and legitimate Laurent Gbagbo.Indeed, February 27, 2011, in a statement at UN headquarters in New York, the organization responsible for world peace accused, on the basis of a report of the Representative of the Secretary-General in Côte d'Ivoire, the government of President Laurent Gbagbo of violating the arms embargo in force since 2004. In this statement, the UN accused the government of Belarus to have delivered two helicopters and weapons to the regime of Laurent Gbagbo. (...)The next day February 28, 2011, the government of President Laurent Gbagbo, speaking through his spokesman has denied the information of suspected illegal shipments of weapons. After duplication, March 2, 2011, the UN through the voice of French Alain Le Roy, in charge of operations of peacekeeping in the world, apologized to the Belarusian government in a public statement indicating that "the UN had been misled "without more. No word against the government of Laurent Gbagbo, who had been falsely accused with trumpets. "
 An African head of state, "Gbagbo won the elections but the westerns did not want him"
On 5 March 2011, the second meeting of the five (5) members of the panel of the African Union began in Mauritania with two (2) hours late. The reason: the plane of the Tanzanian President would have been delayed considerably for having said, an unexpected detour through Paris before heading for Nouakchott, a true meander air. The result of this meeting determine the outcome of the conflict in  Ivory Coast, is the second visit that would make the five (5) Heads of State Panel members scheduled the same day of March 5, 2011 in Abidjan was canceled indefinitely die. The precursors of Presidents of South Africa (ship and aircraft) and Chad (2 planes) that were already on Ivorian soil in Ivorian waters and had to turn back the same day after 20 h, without anyone knowing real reasons for this sudden change of plans.The reality is that before the second meeting of March 5 Heads of State Panel members in Nouakchott, recurring information from Addis Ababa, and several circulating in diplomatic circles, reported a strong tendency for the outright cancellation of the elections on November 28, 2010 and the formation of a unity government that would aim to organize a new election transparent in the near future.Large underground diplomatic negotiations and sometimes the pressures of all kinds, have prevented the triumph of this objective , during the second meeting of Heads of State in Nouakchott. According to a head of state panel member who said he had not had the courage to come to Abidjan, Gbagbo look across to him of the decision of the African Union but he did not share before which he had to bow, "it was at this meeting that I realized that the case of Laurent Gbagbo came from far away and that it was not a simple matter of ascertaining the truth as I had originally thought. Gbagbo has indeed won the elections but the westerns did not want him. One that emphasizes risk of suffering the same fate as him. Tell him to leave power to Ouattara. If he insists, what happens behind would  not be good for him. "
 Gbagbo as the Czech Alexander Dubcek ...
"President Laurent Gbagbo has not designed a war. He and I his defense minister during the crisis, had never talked of war. It was more a question for us to see, how to defend the institutions and the Ivorians if we were attacked, as implied the release of ECOWAS. (...) Laurent Gbagbo, who is a man of peace and virtue, remained in this position when France, ECOWAS, UNOCI and FRCI launched the offensive in Abidjan. He had the same reaction Alexander Dubcek in 1968 when Moscow's tanks had landed in Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring. Namely: "let go and they go to the end of their logic."
 Selected by Theophile Kouamouo