documented how Tako was among the militant pro-Gbagbo fighters in Liberia involved in recruiting and planning for future cross-border attacks.155 But while there may have been political motives, the March attacks appear primarily provoked by land issues linked to the crisis. Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported at the time: The investigation points toward a settling of scores linked to land conflict. According to local authorities, natives, complaining that their land had been sold by their neighbors while they were displaced by the crisis, have threatened these villagers with reprisals…. During the attack, the assailants burned houses of [Guéré landowners] and executed four Burkinabés. The bodies of these Burkinabés … were mutilated.156 A burnt house in Zilébly village, which was attacked on March 13, 2013 by people who crossed over from Liberia. The attackers appeared to target people who were seen as associated with allegedly illegal land sales that stripped refugees of their land. April 26, 2013. © 2013 Tamasin Ford 155 “Liberia: Ivorian Government Foes Wage, Plot Attacks,” Human Rights Watch news release, June 6, 2012, http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/06/liberia-ivorian-government-foes-wage-plot-attacks. 156 “Côte d’Ivoire: sept morts dans des affrontements près de la frontière avec le Liberia,” Radio France Internationale, March 14, 2013, http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20130314-cote-ivoire-sept-morts-affrontements-pres-frontiere-liberia (accessed August 28, 2013). 53 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | OCTOBER 2013