16 “They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire Two people were shot dead by the security forces on 4 December 2010 in the Port-Bouët area of Abidjan as they left their homes early in the morning. An eyewitness told Amnesty International: “After the end of the curfew [decreed by Laurent Gbagbo], Bayo Alassane went out to buy some cigarettes. Everything was calm, there was hardly anyone around in the street but the security forces shot him dead as well as Kaboré Moumouni, a butcher who was on his way to work.” Amnesty International also documented incidents of extrajudicial executions of people within their homes. One eyewitness told Amnesty International: “The night of 5-6 December [2010] a large group of security forces supporting Gbagbo came to our home, some in uniforms and others in plain clothes; we did not open and from the window we saw seven cargos [army or police vehicles]. When we thought they had gone, we opened the door and me and my brother, Fofana Youssouf, went out but more forces were still there and started shooting. We rushed back into the courtyard and at that point my brother was hit. He died shortly after.” BOX 3 : SECURITY FORCES AND MILITIAS LOYAL TO LAURENT GBAGBO Security Forces Various security forces that remained loyal to Laurent Gbagbo after the election results were announced in November 2010 committed serious human rights violations. They include: The Forces de défense et de sécurité (FDS, Defence and Security Forces), which includes military personnel, gendarmes (paramilitary police forces) and police forces.  The Centre de commandement des opérations de sécurité (CECOS, Centre for the Command of Security Operations), which was responsible to the Minister of Defence.  The Brigade anti-émeute (BAE, Anti-Riot Brigade), a police force.  The Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (CRS, Republican Security Companies), a police force.  Militias The militias supporting Laurent Gbagbo were a nebulous group of many diverse organizations. Roughly speaking, they encompassed the village self-defence groups, the paramilitary groups in the west of the country and urban militias in Abidjan. These urban militias were themselves divided in many sub-groups whose leaders were sometimes former or current members of the Fédération estudiantine et scolaire de Côte d'Ivoire (FESCI), Ivorian Federation of Students and School Pupils. These urban groups included : Amnesty International May 2011 Index: AFR 31/002/2011