Everything is collapsing with the first shots on Monday March 28.?? Trembling, Clementine follows the fighting that put Duékoué under fire and sword. The northern army has crossed the line. To get it over with. The northern rebels have launched all their auxiliaries in the battle, dozos, their militias and even the gang of killers of warlord, Amade Ouéremi, from Burkina Faso. They descend from the mountains, seep through the bush, down on all sides at once, sweeping presidential security forces that were protecting the civilians . They take Duékoué a few hours, then stop, partying and plundering. This is the error. From the South, a pro-government unit with a tank, attack and takes the city center. In the afternoon, the main body of the north, coming as reinforcements, disintegrating the tank and terminates 24 hours a confused and bloody battle. On the morning of Tuesday, March 29, dozens of dead bodies cover the sidewalks of Duékoué. The valiant security forces have decamped, leaving the civilians defenseless against Ouattara's blood hungry fighters .
Town Carrefour is the first stop on their way. They surround the houses. Men are sorted, their ID cards examined. Malinke name: live. Ivorian identity card, a name Guéré (Wê): a shot in the head. Outside, the women are on their knees. They forced us to sing their glory. "Warriors, Warriors," says Julie, a resident. These attackers are divided into three groups. The killers, looters and gators. The gators are those who water our houses with petrol before setting fire. A priest and his children are surprised at the church: what is your party? The party of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ? They are slaughtered. Amid screams and explosions, the attackers insult their victims. You voted Gbagbo, traitors! And former tenants rejoice: You mistook us for the servants. We came back supreme. We will take your wives, your land, your fields. And you will eat mud! And they kill. By late morning, Carrefour is on fire. They start to invade the surrounding villages. " Unbearable this story right? It's not all. "A Bahé. B, a few kilometers from Duékoué, Denis spade his cassava field, he hears a noise, goes to his wife, saw eight men in fatigues, red scarf and sandals are on the plastic (Leke) feet. Who's there?, Three shots meet him. He falls, left for dead. On the third day of the killings, the killers do not sort their victims anymore. My wife Helen, my twin 4 ½ years, my 2 year old son. They killed nine people in my family, "says Denis paralyzed in blood. Denis hears a call for help from his niece, his adopted daughter aged 13. "Dad, they are raping me! "Denis saw several men around the child, the cries last an eternity. Then they stop. Denis then discovers the body of his niece, a discharge of shot in the chest. All night, Denis hears dogs barking of dozos entering the bush, hunt the survivors, the peasants in their camps. In the morning, Denis crawls towards the road and crosses a column of UNOCI. After a long period of inertia, peacekeepers begin to patrol, bury the dead and look for survivors. "
The French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur, puts forward a figure of at least 2,000 dead, very close to the conclusions of our investigations in 1800 indicating Duékoué people summarily executed and four mass graves, the most important one is carved to the opposite of the entry of Carrefour by UNOCI on a wetland. Like Human Rights Watch, the ICRC and Amnesty International have condemned these atrocities and demanded that the perpetrators be brought before international courts. Even UNOCI formally identified, in its time, the Pro-Ouattara forces and his militias as those found responsible for the extermination of populations Wê
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