group; other people direct their anger toward the occupants, generally recent Burkinabé migrants. Two deadly cross-border attacks from Liberia in March 2013, as well as several recent inter-communal clashes within western Côte d’Ivoire, appear directly related to land conflict and signal the possible consequences of continued inaction. A resident of Pohan-Badoubly who has struggled for almost eighteen months to recover land he claims was sold illegally during the crisis described the rising tension: What’s happening angers us a lot, as the land is our inheritance. If the authorities don’t act quickly, things will get dangerous. For right now, we’re avoiding making war against the [illegal sellers and buyers]. But if we lose our inheritance, what are we going to eat, how will we stay in the village? Things could quickly fall apart, it could become another war…. If we continue to see the illegal occupation of land in our region, it’s going to become another Duékoué.150 At least three other people in villages around Bloléquin similarly expressed a fear that the region could become “the next Duékoué”151—the region host to some of Côte d’Ivoire’s most horrific violence and human rights abuses since the 2002-2003 civil war, with tension there between Guéré and non-native populations driven in part by land conflict.152 Dozens of other Guérés alleging land dispossession used the common Ivorian phrase, “Trop, c’est trop,” meaning “enough is enough,” before saying that violence was inevitable if land issues were not resolved. Two examples illuminate these fears. On March 13 and 23, 2013, attackers crossed from Liberia to the border villages of Zilébly and Petit-Guiglo, respectively. They were led by Oulaï Tako,153 a well-known pro-Gbagbo militiaman implicated in serious crimes in western Côte d’Ivoire during both armed conflicts.154 Tako’s home village is Oulaïtaïbly, which borders Zilébly, the site of the March 13 attack. In June 2012, Human Rights Watch 150 Human Rights Watch interview with alleged victim of land dispossession by illegal sale, Pohan-Badoubly, June 3, 2013. 151 Human Rights Watch interviews, villages in Bloléquin department, June 2013. 152 See Human Rights Watch, “They Killed Them Like It Was Nothing.” 153 According to residents of Zilébly, his actual name is Oulaï Anderson Kohou, but he is widely known and referred to as Oulaï Tako. 154 Human Rights Watch interviews with victims and witnesses to crimes committed by Tako and his men, villages in Bloléquin department, June 2013. “THAT LAND IS MY FAMILY’S WEALTH” 52