22 “They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire they had come to search the house for armed Dioulas. Civilians and the one wearing a red armband spoke to the Imam, Cheikh Souleymane Cissoumar and said they were not going to give him any trouble because he was a man of God and he must pray for them. They left and came back 20 minutes later saying that the Cheikh's pupils were rebels. The Cheikh said this was not true. They shot at two talibés [students at a Koran school] and wounded two others, Daouda, 40, and Ousmane Coulibali, 17. Then they shot the Cheikh in the head and stomach. As they were leaving they also killed the Cheikh's mother, Fanta Konaté, aged more than 80. I knew two of the three people who did this. They are students and FESCI members and also man roadblocks at Williamsville, not far from the CRS camp." Sexual violence Amnesty International documented several cases of rape committed by security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan. One rape victim told Amnesty International: “On 19 December [2010], they came to my house in Abobo. They came in the middle of the night; I was sleeping with my husband and my children. They were hammering at the door. Our door is right on the street, we didn’t open. They then broke down the door, our door is made of wood. They came in, eight of them, four in plain clothes and four soldiers in military fatigues and balaclavas. Two of them took my husband outside and six of them came upon me. They told me to undress and when I didn’t, they came at me again. They all took turns raping me and threw my children to the floor, the children were crying. I was screaming. I don’t know what they were doing to my husband. After, I heard two gun shots. Then they left and I found my husband outside lying on his stomach. He was dead. The people who raped me and killed my husband told me that if I wanted to complain, I should go to Alassane Ouattara.” Women have also been victims of sexual violence in detention. Several women were arrested at the 16 December 2010 demonstration by police officers who took them to the Plateau police headquarters, in the centre of Abidjan, then to a house guarded by gendarmes. One of the women told Amnesty International: "On Saturday [18 December 2010] they took me and five other women into a room. It was in the morning. There were three of them. They told us to undress. I refused. One of them hit me with his knife. I told him it was not human. He said: ‘We will see about that’. He took his gun out and I was obliged to yield. The three men raped us, they wore masks. Afterwards, they left and we were kept in the house until Wednesday [22 December]. Every day, a gendarme brought us something to eat. They returned on Monday [20 December]. It was the same men; I suppose it was the same men. It was late in the afternoon and they raped us again. On the evening of 22 December towards 5pm, they released us. I have not dared to go to see a doctor since then." In some cases, women were taken from their home and then raped by a group of soldiers and militiamen. The mother of one of the victims told Amnesty International how her daughter was raped on 18 December 2010. "Our house looks out onto a yard that we share with five other families. Two days after the march of 16 December [2010], I was with my daughter at home in our bedroom when the Amnesty International May 2011 Index: AFR 31/002/2011