“They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire 39 to. He replied that he was praying and that he was a pastor. The man said: ‘Pastor is not an ethnic group’. Another asked him what party he supported. The pastor replied that his party was Jesus Christ. One of the attackers replied: Why is your party Jesus Christ?’ And they killed him. One of his congregation, Arsène, who was with him, was also killed." Another priest of the Celestial Church of Christ who was still wearing his sacerdotal clothes and eight members of his congregation were also killed. In their attempts to flee these massacres, thousands of people tried to enter the Duékoué Catholic Mission. Some of them were killed on their way there. A witness told Amnesty International: "On Tuesday afternoon [29 March 2011], there were a lot of us on the road running away from the rebels. We were on our way to the Catholic Mission when we were arrested. One of the armed men spoke to my uncle, who was retired, and said to him: ‘You, the man, stay here, we are going to kill all the men’. My uncle said to him: 'Excuse me, my child, do not kill me, what have I done, my child?’ They shot him. I still tremble when I think about it. Then they arrested another young man. They looked at his identity card and shot him dead." In some cases, people were killed because they did not have enough money to give to their attackers. In Duékoué, the widow of a man who had been killed in front of her, on 30 March 2011, told Amnesty International: "Just before 2pm, I was at home with my husband and other members of my family when Ouattara's rebels arrived. They gathered us together. They told my husband that he was a ‘corps habillé’ [member of the security forces]. He replied there must be some mistake, as he was not a soldier. They told him: ‘You are a tall man, therefore you are a ‘corps habillé’. They asked us for 100,000 francs [CFA francs, about 150 euros]. We told them we did not have the money. My father-in-law gave them 6,000 [CFA francs, about 8 euros], they decided that was not enough. They killed my husband." Some people were killed in their homes after they had put their hands on their head to indicate they were surrendering. One witness said: "On Tuesday morning, at least nine people, most of them in fatigues, came into our yard. People were afraid, they came out and put their hands on their head. It was just at that moment that they opened fire, killing seven people in our yard, including a woman, Temohin Suzanne, aged 52, and two men, Gbahounou Dominique Ouonmouegnon and Gbahounou Desiré. " Some people were killed in front of their parents, sometimes with a knife. The mother of one young man who had his throat cut in front of her told Amnesty International: "On Monday morning, about 10am or 11am, they came into the yard and fired in the air. My son and I went out, with our hands on our heads. They said they wanted to kill the boy, I began to cry. One of them shouted out that he did not want to kill women: ‘We want the boy. As for the women, we’ll leave them to the dogs (les femmes, ce sont nos chiens qui vont coucher avec vous)’, and they cut my son's throat." Index: AFR 31/002/2011 Amnesty International May 2011