IVORYCOAST: OUATTARA REWARDS MILLIONS TO HIS MERCENARIES

About forty two mercenaries from neighboring Burkina faso hired by armed  pro-Ouattara militias in 2011 to help overthrow President Gbagbo from power and install Alassane Ouattara will be paid about three hundred thousands dollars as a rewards by president Ouattara's government . According to La Lettre du Continent (French news agency) dated October 11, 2012, Ouattara's regime has decided to reward each mercenary from Burkina Faso , for his role in the overthrow of the then-elected president Gbagbo, about fourteen thousands dollars. This makes a total of 294 million FCFA ( $ 600,000 ) that president Alassane Dramane Ouattara will give people who are accused by various ONG and Human Rights Violations groups of massacre and extrajudicial executions of civilians. This revelation of La Lettre du Continent joined one made earlier by Burkina Faso weekly, Reporter, No. 93, May 1, 2012, which made public the ongoing negociation between Ouattara's government and these mercenaries from Burkina Faso. Ouattara regime will therefore reward killers when people from IvoryCoast mired in misery, insecurity, soaring food prices, and famine threatening ...