“They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire 37 happened. I believe he has done that with other girls." Amnesty International has also obtained a witness statement from a young girl, aged 18, raped in Mahapleu by the same commander on 27 January 2011. This young girl told Amnesty International: “I was going home, at about 4pm. This FAFN commander forced me into his vehicle, drove to a field outside the village and raped me in the back of the vehicle; then he left me there and I walked home. I told a friend of his what he had done. At night he came to our home; I fled to the fields nearby with my older brother. When my mother said that I was not home he saw my brother's wife and he hit her; he said she knew where I was. Then they arrested my brother and my father. Now I cannot go home anymore; I am in hiding with relatives far away”. To Amnesty International’s knowledge, no action has been taken against this commander who was neither suspended from duty nor punished.23 4.2.3. VIOLATIONS COMMITTED BY THE FRCI AND THEIR AUXILIARY FORCES Until Alassane Ouattara announced the creation of the FRCI, on 8 March 2011, there was no clear chain of command between the new president and this armed opposition group. Since 2002, Laurent Gbagbo's supporters have continuously denounced the collusion between the FAFN and Alassane Ouattara, accusing him of instigating the attempted coup in September 2002, which the latter has always categorically denied. However, relations between the FAFN and Alassane Ouattara were officially strengthened as the presidential election of November 2010 approached. Even before the election results were announced, armed elements of the FAFN had ensured the protection of Alassane Ouattara and his government, who were blockaded in the Golf Hotel in Abidjan until the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo. The FAFN's subordination to Alassane Ouattara was definitively clarified when the new Ivorian president integrated the FAFN into the FRCI. Having done this, President Ouattara assumed responsibility for all the acts committed or tolerated by these armed forces subsequent to their integration. 4.2.3.1 Massacres in Duékoué When they took control of Duékoué and the surrounding villages, the FRCI and the Dozos massacred hundreds of Guérés on essentially ethnic and political grounds. After they took control of Duékoué on the morning of 29 March 2011, the FRCI, supported Index: AFR 31/002/2011 Amnesty International May 2011