“They looked at his identity card and shot him dead” Six months of post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire 63 Henri Konan Bédié allied himself with Alassane Ouattara and called to vote for him in the November 2010 run-off. Therefore, some of his supporters, including members of his ethnic group, the Baoulés were targeted by supporters of Laurent Gbagbo. 15 16 This speech can be watched at: http://www.djibitv.com/video/8503/Bl%C3%A9+Goud%C3%A9+annonce+la+lib%C3%A9ration+du+Golf (last accessed 17 May 2011). A neighbourhood in the north of Abidjan then controlled by the Invisible commando hostile to Laurent Gbagbo (See Section 3.3). 17 The Baoulés are an ethnic group from the centre of the country. Henri Konan Bédié who allied himself with Alassane Ouattara during the second round of the November 2010 presidential election belongs to this ethic group. 18 19 Statement 160311, Forces nouvelles, 16 March 2011. See: http://www.forcesnouvelles.info/site/fn_lire.php?newsid=942. (last accessed 17 May 2011). 20 According to terminology inspired by the theory of Ivoirité, the non-indigenous populations of the west of the country are divided into allochtones (Ivorians, notably the Baoulés from the centre of the country) and allogènes from neighbouring countries, especially Burkina Faso See Amnesty International document, Côte d’Ivoire. Targeting women: the forgotten victims of the conflict, AI Index AFR 31/001/2007, 15 March 2007. 21 Heirs to a thousand-year-old tradition, the Dozos (or “doson”), which in Bambara means "the one who returns to the house after hunting in the forest" are a brotherhood of very powerful and tightly-knit hunters, widely spread around Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Niger and Côte d’Ivoire. Since the 2002 coup attempt, the Dozos have regularly fought alongside the FAFN and have committed serious human rights abuses, including arbitrary and deliberate killings and acts of torture and ill-treatment. 22 This case was raised by Amnesty International delegates during a meeting with President Ouattara on 25 March 2011 (See Section 6.2). 23 24 The Bétés are an ethnic group to which Laurent Gbagbo belongs. Agence France Presse, "Ouest ivoirien: 330 tués, 'la plupart' par les forces pro-Ouattara (ONU)", 2 April 2011. 25 Agence France Presse, "Ouest ivoirien: les tués étaient 'des miliciens' (forces proOuattara", 2 April 2011. 26 The Amnesty International delegation learnt that the UNOCI soldiers brought some mechanical diggers from another place and carried some of the corpses. 27 See Management of Dead Bodies after Disasters: A Field Manual for First Responders published by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Washington DC, 2006. See also Morris Tidball-Binz, Managing the dead in catastrophes: guiding principles and practical recommendations for first responders, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol 89, Number 866, June 2007. 28 29 Ibid, p.10. 30 For security reasons, the names of the villages where women were raped are not mentioned. Index: AFR 31/002/2011 Amnesty International May 2011