be virgin forest…. There are at least 13 Burkinabés in my forest. When I found them there, they told me that they bought it from [name omitted] for more than 100,000 CFA (US$200) per hectare…. They’ve cut down much of the forest and are planting cocoa. The Blédi youth never said that it was his land before the [2010-2011] war. My grandfather, [who died before I was born], worked that land. That land is where I was brought into this world…. We’ve never sold it, that land is my family’s wealth. Now it’s been destroyed. Where we grew food before, they’ve even pulled that up to plant cocoa…. I can’t access my forest, I can’t feed my children. We just grow a little rice and manioc by the village to survive. It really angers me. I’ve filed a complaint with the local authorities, but the Blédi youth never comes when the canton chief [a traditional leader] summons him…. I don’t even have the 1,000 CFA ($2) to go to Bloléquin to bring the case to the sub-prefect…. I don’t have any problems with the Burkinabés there. They’re honest with me, they told me who sold them the land. It’s the Guéré in Blédi who I have a problem with. We have so many cases like this. The [youth] sell land that’s not theirs and then go buy a motorbike.92 A 68-year-old man from Douedy-Guézon likewise described how separate Guéré sellers from a neighboring village fraudulently sold his land while he was displaced: I’ve been working my family’s land since 1969. To my great surprise, after the crisis, my entire parcel had been sold, right up to the door to my hut in the campement…. I returned from exile in January 2012. When I returned, I saw that my forest had been cleared. I found Burkinabés on the land, three different buyers who have brought other non-natives to work with them. I’d never seen these Burkinabés before, they weren’t ones who lived with us before the crisis…. When I asked them who had given them this land, they told me [names omitted], Guérés from Bédi-Goazon. I have to be clear, the Burkinabés didn’t install themselves on my land…. 92 Human Rights Watch interview with alleged victim of land dispossession by illegal sale, Pohan-Badouebly, February 11, 2013. “THAT LAND IS MY FAMILY’S WEALTH” 34