Violations of Human Rights in Ivory Coast
by Security Council demanded that the Ivory Coast to investigate the deaths of hundreds of people and human rights violations committed by parties to the conflict in the country. This comes at a time in which she said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said it had documented a large number of violations, including killings, torture and rape.
Security Council demanded that the Ivory Coast to investigate the deaths of hundreds of people and human rights violations committed by parties to the conflict in the country. This comes at a time in which she said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said it had documented a large number of violations, including killings, torture and rape.
He called on the Colombian Ambassador to the United Nations Nistru Osorio, and whose country holds the presidency of the Security Council, parties to the conflict to avoid reprisals and revenge
And provocation.
Osorio said that the Council welcomed the commitment of the President of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara investigate violations of human rights when the parties to the conflict, and its emphasis on the accountability of all those responsible for such violations without regard to affiliation.
For his part, informed the new envoy to the United Nations Othara Youssoo Bamba, the Security Council, that the Government of his country and put human rights at the forefront of their priorities.
Bamba said that Tara ordered an investigation into all allegations of violations of human rights, and pledged to bring all those found guilty of the trial.
The United Nations estimates the death toll at more than 850 people were killed in different regions of the Ivory Coast, of whom four hundred economic capital Abidjan.Serious violations In the same context, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The mission was sent to Ivory Coast last week, has documented a large number of violations committed in this African country, including killings, torture and rape.
Navi Pillay confirmed that the mission and found an enormous amount of human rights violations, include unlawful killings, forced disappearances, torture and sexual violence in Abidjan and the rest of the Ivory Coast during the conflict.
She also said that an appeal launched by the reconciliation and Tara will not be achieved without accounting for all the seriousness of the proven guilty, “which missed the Ivory Coast during the past decade, ” as she put it.The fate of Gbagbo On the other hand, called on the United States to use a transparent and legal methods in dealing with the deposed President Laurent Gbagbo.
The U.S. State Department spokesman confirmed that his country be held accountable to Gbagbo and all those involved violations of human rights in Ivory Coast.
According to officials of the Government and Tara, the transfer of Gbagbo in Abidjan – where he remained in custody since Monday at the residence and the main Tara – somewhere north of the country, in a move he said the Security Council that he had informed them.
It was promised that Tara Gbagbo and his aides have tried a fair trial, and said that his rival “will give all due respect to the former head of state”and called on his supporters to avoid acts of vengeance, and warned that any military exercises caught looting from Payout service.
President also promised to investigate all crimes, and said he would ask the International Criminal Court to consider the validity of the reports of massacres have taken place since the violence began, the end of November the past, when elections were held, won by is rejected outgoing President Gbagbo to recognize its results.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies
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