Pro-Ouattara Forces rape victims

Poignant testimonies of victims of rape by pro-Ouattara forces
Mr. H. (Ex-student high school Zouan-Hounien)
"Pro-Ouattara forces tied me before raping me"

"I came to support a friend when, on the way, I was challenged by two heavily armed Pro-Ouattara forces. They asked me to accompany them to confide in me a job. Instead we go to their camp, they took me in an unfinished house under gunpoint. There, they tied me up and started to rape me. After that, they disappeared in the wild. I lost consciousness. This is the day that I woke up in the hospital. "

Fanta Kone (shopping):
"They threatened to kill me"

"It was a Sunday, I took the day off to sell peanuts in the neighborhoods. Upon arrival in a court in the district Boribana, I was called by three young men who lived in a two-room house. One of them closed the door and asked me to undress or he would kill me. Forthwith, he let out a long knife and also prevents me from screaming. While one was raping me, the other two held me down on the bed. "


K.E. (home):
"I was raped by Pro-Ouattara forces in the bush"

"Usually every Friday, we go into the bush in search of the bundle that we sell at the market the next day. So I went to a coffee field on the road in the village of Kouépleu. A rebel who had overtaken me was being put at ease when I arrived. I knew his presence in this place. But it felt like I was spying. Thus he demanded that I make love with him in the bush or he would kill me. Against my will, I gave in for fear of dying "

O. S. A. (Home):
"My daughter died of rape"
"I'm married to a former teacher originally from Zouan-Hounien. When he asserted his right to retire, we returned home. When the rebels took control of the town of Zouan-Hounien, my daughter was raped by members of the Forces Nouvelles (former rebel army). How were they? I always ask this question. Still, my daughter did not survive the barbarity. She died in the prime of life while preparing his BAC D ".

Special Tribute

Tribute to people of IvoryCoast ; those who have been victims of killings, looting, rape and abuses from President  Ouattara forces under the protectorate of France of Sarkozy and the UN of Ban-Ki-Moon. I pay a particular homage to the 708 prisoners of opinion who are languishing in prisons under the worst inhumane conditions. How can I forget those who lost their jobs or are unable to afford one because they are not from the same North of IvoryCoast as President Ouattara. Be strong brothers and sisters; wipe your tears. The divine justice will certainly go against the oppressors and their satanic trumpets such as Ouattara's tribal press and the Western media
Ouattara and his criminals will continue to mock these victims as long as he has the support of the International Community and the International Criminal Court ( ICC ). Impeach Ouattara and his gangs.

Ouattara's rebels

The zone commanders’ criminal empire, the experts said in the report seen by Reuters on Friday, is responsible for smuggling across a number of sectors and extortion on a massive scale.

The world’s top cocoa grower is emerging from a decade of political turmoil that ended in a brief post-election civil war in 2011 sparked by then-president Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to accept his defeat by Ouattara in elections in late 2010.

French and United Nations-backed northern rebels, known as the Forces Nouvelles, arrested Gbagbo in April 2011, drawing large-scale fighting to a close.

The rebellion’s primary leaders, or zone commanders, now hold strategic command posts in the government army, the FRCI.

« The current Ivorian administration has progressively integrated former zone commanders into the national armed forces without the commanders having abandoned their warlord-style predatory economic activities, » the experts said.

The Forces Nouvelles leadership regularly faced accusations of grave human rights abuses and rampant criminal activity after seizing the northern half of the country in 2002.

Ivory Coast ex-rebels use army posts for criminal network – U.N.
Fri, Apr 26

By Joe Bavier

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Former rebels in Ivory Coast who helped bring President Alassane Ouattara to power have used new positions in the army to expand a criminal network worth millions of dollars across the West African nation, United Nations experts said in a report.

However, the report by the experts’ panel, which is charged with monitoring a U.N.-imposed weapons embargo, said the zone commanders had used their new positions to establish a « military-economic network » that now spans the entire country.

According to the report, the network is controlled by Ouattara Issiaka, known as Wattao, Herve Toure, alias Vetcho, Kone Zakaria, Cherif Ousmane, and Martin Kouakou Fofie.

Kouakou Fofie has been subject to a U.N. travel ban and asset freeze since 2006.

SMUGGLING AND EXTORTION

Using their former rebel fighters, the former rebels have maintained control of Ivory Coast’s artisanal gold industry and diamond mines. The country is currently under a Kimberley Process-imposed ban on diamond exports.

Ex-Forces Nouvelles fighters worked in illegal timber companies based in the rebels’ former stronghold Bouake that chopped down and smuggled abroad teak, a rare and valuable tropical hardwood, the report said.

The panel found that military trucks had been used to export convoys of cocoa being smuggled into neighbouring countries, primarily Ghana.

« The Ivorian authorities estimate that, for the 2011/12 season, contraband cocoa reached 152,000 tonnes, resulting in…a loss of $76 million (49 million pounds) in fiscal revenue for the government, » the report stated.

The zone commanders earned millions of dollars from bribes paid at military and police checkpoints across the country and from an illegal, parallel taxation system, the experts said.

Around 3,000 people died in the 2011 conflict in Ivory Coast, with grave human rights violations committed by both sides.

Gbagbo is awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court accused of crimes against humanity. His wife, Simone, is also wanted by the court on similar charges.

(Reporting By Joe Bavier; Editing by Michael Roddy)

LES PREUVES DE FRAUDES MASSIVES DU PARTI DE OUATTARA AUX ELECTIONS REGIONALES ET COMMUNALES

LES VICTIMES OUBLIEES DES ENQUETES DE LA CPI

Vers 2 heures du matin, le 7 Mars 2011, plus de 60 combattants pro-Ouattara ont attaqué le village d'Anonkoua-Kouté, situé juste à l'extérieur de leur forteresse militaire d'Abidjan à Abobo. Anonkoua est un village de personnes principalement Ebrié, qui soutiennent largement le President Gbagbo. La veille, il y avait eu des combats dans la région entre les forces armées des deux côtés. Les victimes de l' attaque du 7 Mars et un combattant pro- Ouattara ont déclaré à Human Rights Watch que les forces pro-Ouattara croyaient que les armes avaient été laissées dans le village. Toutefois, les assaillants semblent avoir tué des civils au hasard et ont brûlé une grande partie du village.
Human Rights Watch a interrogé quatre victimes d'Anonkoua-Kouté et a confirmé la mort de neuf civils, dont deux femmes qui ont été brûlées vives. L'une des victimes a raconté à Human Rights Watch:
Je pouvais entendre des tirs nourris de mitrailleuses, et les gens du village ont commencé a crier. Je suis sorti pour voir ce qui se passait, et je suis tombé sur quelqu'un qui m'a attrapé et a demandé un mot de passe. Je ne le savais pas, alors il a pointé son fusil à canon scié sur moi à partir de deux mètres et a tiré. J'ai balancé mon bras droit au niveau du pistolet quand il tirait . Je suis tombé à terre, et suis reste là, comme si j'étais mort, respirant à peine. Je les ai vus massacrer le village alors que j'étais couché là-bas.
Les rebelles étaient habillés tout en noir. Certains d'entre eux portaient des cagoules, d'autres avaient des bandanas. Ils tapaient aux portes des gens et ne cessaient de répéter: «Nous sommes ici pour la guerre, nous ne sommes pas ici pour jouer», et ont demandé où les gens cachaient les armes.
Dans une maison proche de la mienne, une femme a refusé d'ouvrir la porte. Ils ont jeté des bouteilles  allumées qui avaient été trempées dans le gaz, et la maison était en flammes. La femme est sortie en courant,  hurlant au feu. Elle est morte plus tard ce jour-là. J'ai regardé quand ils ont pris un autre de mes voisins et lui ont tiré dessus à bout portant. Tout était barbare. Un autre témoin a décrit que les assaillants ont égorgé son  père de 72 ans. Au moins 15 maisons ont été incendiées, et tout le village est maintenant abandonné.
«Commettre des atrocités contre des civils ne doit pas etre un  moyen pour Ouattara de prendre le pouvoir», a conclu Daniel Bekele. «Alassane Ouattara devrait immédiatement demander une enquête sur ces actes déplorables de violence et  demander des comptes à ceux qui les ont ordonnés et menés."

The "international community", led by France, openly supported Alassane Ouattara at the expense of his opponent Laurent Gbagbo. This is undeniable. It should be mentioned that this blind support has been of all kinds: financial, diplomatic, military, but especially the media.

The guilty silence of the Western media

PRESIDENT OUATTARA IS INCOMPETENT

ABIDJAN ( IVORYCOAST ): In a few weeks, President Alassane Ouattara will officially blow its second birthday as the President of Ivory Coast. Fraudulently elected in November 2010, it was finally in April 11, 2011 that he was able to take full possession of state power after a bloody standoff with President Laurent Gbagbo who also claimed victory after the constitutional counsel proclaimed him as the winner. Since then nearly two years, Alassane Ouattara is in command of the country, but some social commitments and promises he made during the presidential campaign are slow to materialize. As far as the employment and the  fight against poverty are concerned, Ouattara regime gives the feeling of back-pedaling. In any case,   as time passes, and as we approach the next presidential election, the future, rather than provide answers to the concerns of people of IvoryCoast, mired in poverty, is outrageously obscure. Not really sure of anything, but based on the numerous complaints and other complaints that are heard everywhere now, we can say today that the majority of the Ivorian population is won by a sense of disappointment or disillusionment witnessing the difficulties experienced by the regime to alter the curve of the poverty in this country. In other words, people feel that Allassane Ouattara, who the international community had placed an almost blind trust, is not as competent as he proclaims. Ouattara is facing the music between the slogans of the presidential campaign and the reality of being a leader. In two years of power, Ouattara's inner circle can be compared to scorpions in a desert because of their corruption and the lack of impunity. All this adds to the disenchantment that began to rise for some time between the President and the people of IvoryCoast. A population whose shoulders are struggling to bear increasingly, the burden of unemployment, cost of living and especially the growing poverty. The recent increase in the price of fuel, gas, electricity ... without any accompanying measure and the total absence of reform of the labor market, are understanding, alas, signs that the end of the tunnel is imperceptible. Busy as he is, without doubt to please the international community rather than look more closely, to degrading living conditions of its citizens.

Source: Ivorian Consumer Group