“They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire 51 6. OFFICIAL MEETINGS During its two missions to Côte d’Ivoire in 2011, the Amnesty International delegation met political leaders of the two parties and UNOCI officials in both Abidjan and the Duékoué region. During its two missions, the Amnesty International’s delegation requested to meet both Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara but could only meet the latter during the second mission in April 2011. 6.1 MEETING WITH OFFICIALS APPOINTED BY LAURENT GBAGBO Amnesty International met several ministers appointed by Laurent Gbagbo after the results of the November 2010 election were announced including the Minister of the Interior, Émile Guiriéoulou, the Minister of Defence, Alain Dogou, the Minister of Justice, Yanon Yapo as well as security service officials, including the head of CECOS, General Bi Poin. The delegates raised the serious human rights violations committed by the security forces and militias loyal to Laurent Gbagbo. In February 2011, Amnesty International showed General Bi Poin, a video in which members of this security force ill-treated people under arrest. General Bi Poin confirmed that the uniformed men responsible for these acts were members of CECOS and that he would open an investigation into the case. These officials stated that Laurent Gbagbo had set up an international commission to investigate “into the allegations of serious human rights abuses committed since the proclamation of the provisional results of the first round of the presidential election on 3 November until the establishment of its report”.48 In addition, these officials criticized Amnesty International for not mentioning the soldiers and police officers killed during clashes with armed demonstrators. The delegates replied that they were in the process of investigating what happened during the march of 16 December 2010 and the events of 1112 January 2011 (see above Section 2.3). 6.2. MEETINGS WITH ALASSANE OUATTARA AND MEMBERS OF HIS GOVERNMENT During their second mission, the Amnesty International delegates met President Alassane Ouattara and his Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Ahoussou Jeannot at the Golf Hotel on 25 March 2011 (two weeks before the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo). The delegation raised its concerns about the serious human rights abuses committed by the FAFN in the west of the country, especially the rapes committed by a FAFN commander in Mahapleu in January 2011 (See Section 4.2.2.) as well as the deliberate and arbitrary Index: AFR 31/002/2011 Amnesty International May 2011