Ivory Coast Stampede Kills 26 Children~

[Sunshine]

The 60 dead included 26 children, 28 women and six men, said Minister of Youth Alain Lobognon, via his official Twitter feed, after visiting the hospital morgue where the bodies were taken.

60 crushed to death in Ivory Coast stampede, minister says - CNN.com

26 children dead. No guns involved. Just sayin............

 

[sfcalifornia]

The 60 dead included 26 children, 28 women and six men, said Minister of Youth Alain Lobognon, via his official Twitter feed, after visiting the hospital morgue where the bodies were taken.

60 crushed to death in Ivory Coast stampede, minister says - CNN.com

26 children dead. No guns involved. Just sayin............

Waste of perfectly good thread space on idiotic, beaten-to-death, illogical analogies. Just saying.....

 

[Mr. H.]

 

[squeeze berry]

The 60 dead included 26 children, 28 women and six men, said Minister of Youth Alain Lobognon, via his official Twitter feed, after visiting the hospital morgue where the bodies were taken.

60 crushed to death in Ivory Coast stampede, minister says - CNN.com

26 children dead. No guns involved. Just sayin............

Waste of perfectly good thread space on idiotic, beaten-to-death, illogical analogies. Just saying.....

so if it's your dead horse it's perfectly fine?

 

[waltky]

Massacre leader arrested...

Ivory Coast Militia Leader Arrested for 2011 Massacre
May 18, 2013 - Soldiers in Ivory Coast have arrested a militia leader who was allegedly involved in a 2011 massacre of political opponents.

Military officials say Amade Oueremigave himself up Saturday as soldiers began to converge near his hideout.

Oueremi and his fighters backed President Alassane Ouattara in the violence that broke out after the 2010 election when former president Laurent Gbagbo refused to step down.

Human rights groups say Oueremi took part in a massacre of Gbagbo supporters in the town of Duekoue in March 2011.

The post-election violence killed about 3,000 people. Gbagbo is in custody facing trial before the International Criminal Court.

Ivory Coast Militia Leader Arrested for 2011 Massacre

See also:

Nigerian Military Says It Captured Dozens of Boko Haram Militants
May 18, 2013 — Less than five days after the Nigerian armed forces began a massive attack on militants in the north, Nigeria's Department of Defense says 65 suspected Boko Haram militants have been arrested and ten have been killed.

The Nigerian military says Boko Haram militants are fleeing their camps. Some are in search of fuel while others are running from the armed forces that are attacking the camps. This comes after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday declared a state of emergency in three northern states because of escalating Boko Haram violence. Since the insurgency began in 2009, Boko Haram, which says it shares resources and training with al-Qaida, has been blamed for thousands of deaths.

In a statement released Saturday, Defense Department spokesperson, Chris Olukolade said the armed forces continue to battle Boko Haram and they will “fish out” suspected members in hiding. Some analysts fear the military offensive could further escalate the violence, saying Nigerian security forces alienate the public by killing suspects rather than arresting them, and detaining people without charges.

Nigerian soldiers are seen patrolling a town in the north-eastern state of Borno

Babagana, is an accountant in Maiduguri, the original home of Boko Haram and the heart of the insurgency. He says residents have mixed feelings about the sudden influx of armed forces. “If they can discharge their duties professionally to ensure that peace is restored in [the north-eastern state of] Borno and the nation at large, it’s a welcome development. But the problem is when they are attacked or one of them is killed or whatever they will just start harassing innocent people, maiming, killing, burning and in the process they will kill a lot of innocent ones; meanwhile the culprit will escape them. So that is the problem.”

Phone and internet service in the northeast have been intermittent since the offensive began and many places are locked down, with authorities Saturday imposing an indefinite 24-hour curfew in more than 10 local areas. In Maiduguri the military has blocked off roads heading north and commercial trucks wait idly at the blockades.

http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-military-boko-haram/1663714.html

 

[waltky]

ICC urged to look into war crimes by Ivory Coast's Forces Nouvelles Leaders...

ICC Urged to Investigate Ivory Coast’s Forces Nouvelles Leaders
July 24, 2013 > The former chief of investigations for the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute leaders of the Forces Nouvelles over alleged atrocities the group committed during Ivory Coast’s civil war.

Alan White says there is need for the ICC to administer equal justice in Ivory Coast. “All we are looking for is to ensure there is a balanced investigation and a balanced prosecution. Quite frankly that is one of the areas right now that the country of Ivory Coast is struggling from is the fact that there is not a sense of justice,” White said. The ICC is gathering evidence to prosecute former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo for his role in the civil war after he refused to accept the October 2010 presidential vote. The election dispute led to the conflict. Human rights groups accused supporters of both Gbagbo and current President Alassane Ouattara of human rights violations during the conflict.

Dr. Alan W. White (in jacket) is former chief of investigations for the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone

White says for credibility and real reconciliation, the ICC will need to prosecute those on the pro-Ouattara side and since the court granted jurisdiction to the prosecutor to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity and war crimes dating back to September 19, 2002 to the present. Gbagbo supporters have accused the ICC of favoritism, claiming that the former leader has been singled out for prosecution. “If the court continues to pursue a balanced approach, I think the credibility will improve and certainly Ggagbo’s supporters, although they may not change their mind about the court, if they are fair about the court they will certainly reserve judgment if they see that there is a balance prosecution to eliminate this perception of persecution,” said White.

Guillame Soro, leader of the Forces Nouvelles, is currently Ivory Coast’s speaker of parliament. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations documented what they say are atrocities allegedly committed by the Forces Nouvelle. Critics have said they wonder if the ICC has the political will to go after Mr. Soro due to his current position as the speaker of parliament. Others, however, say the ICC is experiencing a financial crunch, which has hampered its ability to investigate and prosecute alleged perpetrators in Ivory Coast. “For international justice to succeed, it must be viewed as fair, free and balanced. If it is seemingly balanced on one side, it will certainly be cause for alarm for the people that would cooperate with the court,” said White.

ICC Urged to Investigate Ivory Coast?s Forces Nouvelles Leaders

 

[Osomir]

Not sure what your article posts have to do with the thread subject?

 

[R.C. Christian]

I see the mob is still searching the web for black atrocities because they can't get over the Zimmerman bullshit.

******* please. Enough. It solves nothing.

 

[Mr. H.]

I see the mob is still searching the web for black atrocities because they can't get over the Zimmerman bullshit.

******* please. Enough. It solves nothing.

You think the Trayvon shit is over and done with?

It hasn't even started. "Justice for Trayvon" will be a rallying cry for decades to come.

 

[waltky]

Yea, uh-huh, dat's right - she got dat high an' fly look about her...

Ivory Coast ex-first lady goes on trial for war crimes
May 31, 2016 - Ivory Coast's former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, went on trial on Tuesday, accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes for her alleged role in a 2011 civil war.

The court case at home came after the government rejected her extradition to international court in The Hague. Her husband, ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, is already before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges linked to the brief conflict, which was sparked by his refusal to accept defeat to Alassane Ouattara in a run-off election in late 2010. Around 3,000 people died in the violence.

Flanked by policemen, Simone Gbagbo, a key figure in her husband's regime, greeted several dozen cheering supporters gathered at the entrance of the court in the commercial capital Abidjan with waves and smiles. The prosecution alleges she was part of an inner circle of her husband's key backers that planned violence against Ouattara's supporters as a means of maintaining Gbagbo in power. The trial opens just a day after Chad's president Hissene Habre was convicted by a special tribunal in Senegal for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his eight-year rule.

Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo, who is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes for her alleged role in a 2011 civil war, arrives in a domestic court in Abidjan​

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The success of that trial is likely to bolster African leaders, who have grown increasingly hostile towards the ICC and have called for the continent to take justice into its own hands. Having emerged as the victor of both the polls and the war, Ouattara, now president, has refused to honour an ICC warrant for Simone, claiming that the Ivorian justice system is now capable of judging her. In an earlier trial, she was convicted in March 2015 of offences against the state and given 20 years in prison, a sentence that was upheld on appeal this month.

However, despite the conviction, rights campaigners and observers criticised the trial for failing to provide evidence linking her and other political leaders to violence by their supporters. Human rights groups including the International Federation for Human Rights, which was representing victims in the domestic case against Simone Gbagbo, announced this week that it was withdrawing its participation in the war crimes trial. They claimed the prosecution's investigation had been rushed in order to respond to the ICC warrant and the trial would not give victims a full picture of the Gbagbo administration's orchestration of the post-election violence.

Ivory Coast ex-first lady goes on trial for war crimes

 

[Katzndogz]

This is a stampede of people leaving a fireworks show. Sorry but it doesn't peg the sympathy meter. Try black friday at Walmart.

 

[whitehall]

New Years 2013. You need to update your software.