38 “They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire by Dozos and armed elements in plain clothes, led a manhunt in an area called Quartier Carrefour, where the population was mainly Guérés. They entered the compounds, demanded money and looted houses. Then they asked women and girls to leave and summarily executed hundreds of men of all ages (See below Box 5). Before killing them, they asked their victims to give their names or show their identity card. Some of these identity cards were later found beside the bodies. Amnesty International has gathered more than 100 witness statements from people who survived this massacre in Duékoué and in the neighbouring villages. They all indicate the systematic and targeted nature of the killings committed by uniformed FRCI soldiers and Dozos against Guéré populations. Many people were also killed in their homes during systematic raids on compounds inhabited by Guéré communities. During its investigation in Duékoué in April 2011, the Amnesty International delegation visited several burnt houses and saw charred bodies not yet buried. A woman who lived in Duékoué told Amnesty International: "On Monday [28 March 2011], the FRCI easily defeated the security forces and their allies, militias and Liberian mercenaries. The latter quickly deserted, abandoning civilians, leaving us without any protection. The next day, the FRCI and the Dozos entered into Quartier Carrefour. They came into the yards and chased the women. Then they told the men to line up and asked them to state their first and second names and show their identity card. Then they executed them. I was present while they sorted out the men. Three young men, one of whom was about 15, were shot dead in front of me." Amnesty International learnt that armed elements regularly came back during the following days to Duékoué Hospital to look for the wounded and that, on one occasion, FRCI elements had fired a bullet inside the hospital "to scare medical staff." Several people were killed after they showed their identity cards. A protestant pastor told Amnesty International: “That Tuesday [29 March], I ran with people from my congregation to seek refuge at the Catholic Mission. When we arrived at the CP II area, they shot at us. My son and two other persons were killed. A few meters further, they arrested me and asked for my ethnic group. I told them that I was a pastor. They then asked me for my identity card, they did not check everything as they were arguing with another inhabitant who was running away. When that person said that he was from the Bété ethnic group,24 they asked him to lie down and they slit his throat. I took this opportunity to run away.” Other men belonging to religious congregations were killed and all the churches in the Quartier Carrefour were vandalized, looted and burned down. A pastor called Jacquemin was killed in his church with one of his congregation. A witness told Amnesty International: "On Tuesday 29 March, they came into our church, the pastor was praying with his congregation. One of them asked him what he was doing and what ethnic group he belonged Amnesty International May 2011 Index: AFR 31/002/2011