44 “They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire One witness told how in Diahouin: "Djiezon Olivier, aged 17, ran to hide in his house. Rebels set his house alight and prevented him from coming out. His burned body was buried immediately afterwards." Village chiefs were also illegally killed. In Bahé Be(8 km from Duékoué on the road to Guiglo), the FRCI killed the village chief, Doh André, on Friday 1 April 2011 because he had given shelter to the village chief of the Quartier Carrefour, in Duékoué, who was also killed. These massive and systematic human rights abuses led tens of thousands of people to flee from their towns and villages, some of which had become almost ghost towns by the time the Amnesty International delegation visited the area. For example, Diahouin (some 20 km from Duekoué), which had a population of 2,675 before the attacks had only 263 by the time the Amnesty International delegation visited it on 10 April 2011. One resident of the village told Amnesty International: "When the rebels arrived, when we saw they were not shooting in the air, we fled. The population went to hide in the bush. Some of them have still not returned." The ethnic motive for these killings was evidenced by the fact that many witnesses said that non-Guéré communities were spared and their belongings left untouched. In the village of Niambly (10 km from Duékoué), which was attacked on 23 March 2011, only the Guérés were targeted by the FRCI. A witness told Amnesty International: "On the morning of 23 March, the village was surrounded by armed men. Some of them were wearing fatigues, others were wearing simple clothes, Rangers [boots] or Leke [plastic sandals]. They began to shoot the villagers, they shot them in the back if they ran away. They killed at least ten people. They burned down some houses. They spared those belonging to non-Guérés." 4.2.4 MASSACRES IN THE TOWN OF GUIGLO The delegation visited Guiglo, which is located about 30 km to the south west of Duékoué. Although they took the control of the town of Guiglo without any resistance, the FRCI and the armed elements fighting with them killed members of the Guéré ethnic group. A Guéré woman told Amnesty International: “They came to the Nikla neighbourhood on Friday 1rst April and they began to shoot. I ran to seek refuge in a plantation compound. I stayed there for three days. The FRCI and the Dozos chased people in the compound. They captured Toualy Rodrigue and Dogo Hervé, his seven year old nephew. Toualy Rodrigue was killed by a machete and Doga Hervé’s throat was slit, his body was thrown in a well.” Amnesty International May 2011 Index: AFR 31/002/2011