“They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire   17 The Congrès des Jeunes Patriotes (COJEP), Congress of Young Patriots led by Charles Blé Goudé The Groupement des Patriotes pour la Paix (GPP), Group of Patriots for Peace. In this report, we refer to these militias under the generic term of Young Patriots. In other cases, people were targeted by security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo patrolling in vehicles. For example, on 19 January 2011, Bamba Mamadou, nicknamed Solo, who was a football player, was beaten to the ground and was then shot dead by security forces patrolling in the Banfora Adjamé neighbourhood of Abidjan. An eyewitness told an Amnesty International delegation in February 2011: "Between 7am and 8am, I saw members of CECOS in a car shooting in the air. The car was speeding through Banfora, [in Adjamé, a district of Abidjan]. It was a case of run for your life. People were frightened and ran in every direction. They started to chase Bamba. He ran and the car followed him. The four occupants of the car got out and one of them tripped him. Bamba fell to the ground. The uniformed men hit him. They trod all over him and beat him with the butts of their guns. He couldn't defend himself. One of them used a machete as though he was cutting down a tree. Bamba was in the middle of the road, one of them dragged him along, another one got down from the vehicle and finished him off with a bullet in the head. They left the body there; a woman came and put a cloth over his face. He was buried on the same day." In February 2011, the Amnesty International delegation raised this case with the CECOS command officials who summoned the gendarme who shot Bamba Mamadou. This gendarme said that Bamba Mamadou had a machete and injured his right hand with a knife when he shot and killed him. No judicial proceedings followed. Extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings continued throughout March and April 2011 and dozens of people were killed either in their homes or in the street. For example, in Yopougon, on 16 March 2011, members of the security forces killed two people, Kébé Mamadou, a carpenter, and Konate Ibrahima, a builder. A witness told Amnesty International: "The security forces opened fire in the street. Mamadou and Ibrahima hid in a house off a courtyard. The security forces searched for the men in several houses. Each time they came back out on to the street, they asked if there were any young men around. They knocked down a Ghanaian. He pleaded with them and they let him go in exchange for cash. Then they broke down the gate of the courtyard where Ibrahima and Mamadou were hiding. They found them inside a house. They shot them in the head and then left, taking their mobile phones with them." As has been the case throughout the last decade, especially following the 2002 coup attempt, foreign nationals from the sub-region, especially people with a Muslim name, have been targeted and sometimes illegally killed. Amnesty International researchers gathered several statements from witnesses indicating that security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo have attacked people from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Mali because of their Index: AFR 31/002/2011 Amnesty International May 2011