40 “They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire These killings had political as well as ethnic motives and the Guérés who were able to prove their support for Alassane Ouattara escaped alive. One official in the local administration had this to say: "[On Tuesday 29 March], when they arrived, they shouted out, repeating that they had come to kill the Guérés. A Guéré woman was stabbed in the back. When she showed a photo of ADO, a FRCI soldier said: ‘Excuse me’, and spared the life of her brother whom they were going to execute." The Amnesty International delegation also collected information showing clearly that the FRCI and the armed elements fighting alongside them were targeting specifically the Guerés population. During their stay in Duékoué, the delegation learnt that a house belonging to a Malian and another house belonging to a Baoulé family were not attacked while their Guéré neighbours were systematically attacked. In other cases, the FRCI and armed elements fighting at their side made their victims sing hymns to the glory of Alassane Ouattara. One person who was in a group trying to seek refuge at the Catholic Mission, told the Amnesty International delegation: "We were arrested on the road, opposite Guémon Bridge. The rebels told us they were going to kill all the Guérés and that not a single one of them would be left. They told us to stand apart in a group – the men and boys on the left and the women on the right. They said that the Guérés were stupid and that it was not surprising they had voted for Laurent Gbagbo. They told us to sing 'ADO president, ADO solution'." Many men and young boys were killed off the Guémon bridge and the Amnesty International delegation learnt that 56 dead bodies were registered at this place. Witnesses told Amnesty International that the day after this massacre, people belonging to the Malinké ethnic group plundered the corpses and the homes of the dead. At least one political official was targeted by the FRCI and the troops fighting alongside them in Duékoué. These armed elements went to the home of Jean Bouana, director of the campaign of one of the candidates to the presidential election in November 2010 who supported Laurent Gbagbo in the run-off. A witness told Amnesty International: "On Tuesday 29 March, we were at home when the rebels arrived, some of them wearing grigris [amulets]. We told them that our parents were Lebanese and Guérés. They demanded money, then left. They returned towards 9am the next day and asked Jean Bouana to get in their vehicle. We asked for mercy but they took him in the direction of Guiglo. We fled in order to go to the Catholic Mission. That afternoon, his body was found on the road." The UNOCI failure to protect civilians The massacre at Duékoué took place in spite of the presence of a UNOCI base 1 km from the Quartier Carrefour, the main location of the killings. The first people to find refuge in the Catholic Mission requested the help of the peacekeeping force but received no assistance. Amnesty International May 2011 Index: AFR 31/002/2011