46 “They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire Attacks against villages - where people belonging to ethnic groups considered as supporters of Laurent Gbagbo lived - continued during the first weeks of May 2011. On 1 May 2011, the FRCI entered the villages of Mopoyem and Agneby in the region of Dabou (about 50 km to the west of Abidjan). Claiming that they were looking for militias supporting Laurent Gbagbo and arms caches, elements of the FRCI beat up some villagers. On 4 May, the FRCI entered the village of Adiaké, on the road to Bassam. Four people were beaten and one of them was detained for at least two days. Several villages located in the sub-prefecture of Dago, in the department of Sassandra, were looted and set ablaze. A village chief told Amnesty International on 9 May 2011: “Since 6 May, the FRCI and the non-indigenous populations (allogènes) are committing many abuses against us. There are dead bodies everywhere and as people fled to the bush, there is nobody to bury the corpses that are exposed on the road. Behind all this, there is a land issue as the allogènes want to take our lands.” Between the 6 and 8 May 2011, several villages were set ablaze and dozens of people were killed, notably in the village of Gobroko. The FRCI justified these acts by saying that they were looking for arms and Liberian mercenaries. Amnesty International learnt that in the village of Adebem, people belonging to the Godie ethnic group (considered as supporters of Laurent Gbagbo) were assaulted by Dioulas who destroyed theirs homes and expelled the inhabitants. Hundreds of people have since been hiding in the bush and living in poor sanitary conditions. 4.2.6 SEXUAL VIOLENCE Amnesty International also gathered information on cases of rape and sexual violence committed against women and girls by the FRCI and other armed elements fighting with them. For example, on 31 March, in the village of X30, 7 kms from Duékoué, a girl aged 14 was raped and killed. A witness said: "On 31 March, men in fatigues surrounded my “campement” (a house surrounded by a plantation). First they shot me. I fell down, they thought I was dead. Then they surrounded other people. The daughter of a woman, aged 14 and who also lived in the camp, was raped and then killed. She struggled, she screamed, she called for help, to no avail, the other people could do nothing. One of the attackers ripped her skirt and raped her, then shot her and then shot other people." In another village, several women were raped on 1 April 2011. A rape victim told Amnesty International: Amnesty International May 2011 Index: AFR 31/002/2011