2000: Yopougon Massacre

ExecutedToday.com ^ | October 26, 2012 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

This date in 2000 saw the most notorious incident in a dreadful wave of election violence in the West African nation of Ivory Coast.

The context was the aftermath of a contentious 2000 presidential election summoned by a coup government that had overthrown the previous regime the year before.

Ivorian politics pitted the more prosperous coastal Christian south against the more rural Muslim inlands, but the 2000 election did not: Alassane Ouattara, the northern/Muslim standard-bearer was eliminated from the election by a conveniently-introduced summer 2000 law disqualifying candidates with a foreign parent. Ouattara was a former Ivorian Prime Minister, but for this election, he wasn’t Ivorian enough to stand.

Political bad blood became political bloodsport with the Oct. 22 election.

[Lurkinanloomin]

2000 law disqualifying candidates with a foreign parent.
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That has been in our Constitution since 1789, but our elected and appointed decided to ignore it in 2008.

[granada]

You believe Hillary’s two presidential terms would have been less harmful to the world?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Probably not, we were lucky that the Kenyanesian Usurper was a lazy stoner.

It still stands that ALL of our elected AND appointed violated the Constitution.