Meanwhile, RTI continues to tell only its side of the story: Gbagbo is protecting the country's sovereignty against unwarranted interference from the international community and the French who want to tell Ivorians how to run their own country and want to install their puppet as president.
After eight years of political instability and economic hardship, the people of Ivory Coast went to the polls on October 31, 2010. Over eighty percent of registered voters turned out! On November 28 they voted again in a run-off. This blog by American writer Carol Spindel focuses on what the elections mean to the people of one community in the northern part of the country who voted peacefully but whose votes were thrown out.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Dangerous streets
Amnesty International has expressed its concern about the violence in Abidjan perpetrated by the security forces against ordinary people. I hear the same thing over the telephone when I call friends. Pro-Gbagbo youths with machetes chasing youths in Abobo and beating them if they catch them, soldiers using tear gas even during the daytime in Koumassi to chase everyone back inside. The most chilling story came from someone who, on the way home to Abobo just before the curfew began, saw SUVs pull up at a house. The electricity was off there. A man in a boubou who looked like a neighbor knocked at the door. The people in the house opened the door. The man and soldiers went in. Shots were heard.
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