Posted on 04/03/2011 7:07:22 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
The single biggest atrocity in the long battle for control of Ivory Coast has emerged after aid workers discovered the bodies of up to 1,000 people in the town of Duekoue.
Charity workers who reached Duekoue said it appeared the killings had taken place in a single day, shortly after the town fell to troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the man internationally-recognised as having won last year’s presidential election.
The apparent massacre came despite the presence of United Nations troops and - if confirmed - will cast a shadow over Mr Outtara’s assumption of the Ivory Coast’s presidency after a four-month battle to oust Lawrence Gbagbo, the former president who lost the November election but refused to step down.
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Will Obama save the fatherland?
No blood for chocolate.
Where is the count down for launch of a few thousand tommyhawks, make war, these people just wanted a democracy.
When has the presence of UN troops meant anything positive?
Gbagbo actually won, but with a little creative recounting, intimidation and violence, Ouattara got the results officially reversed, mostly thanks to the US and the usual leftist suspects. This was even though it is not clear that Ouattara was legally able to run (their constitution has a native born clause and he is from Burkina Faso, which he now denies, of course).
This is a repeat of the Odinga situation in Kenya, where Obama and the left put the Marxist Muslim Odinga in power even though he lost the election.
For those who are enjoying our new hands-off approach to foreign affairs, get used to it.
I’ve got news for you, vital interests or not, nobody else is going to take care of these things.
Now this os inconvenient for the UN. Where is the R2P crowd?
When has the presence of UN troops meant anything positive?
Oh, I don't know... presence of UN troops might well mean that some of the corpses will test positive for gonorrhea.
The Sociopath of State says the US is “deeply concerned”.
“nobody else is going to take care of these things”
Why should we? That is not our country. If you want to do something about it, then go there or donate your own money. This idea that the US must be the world’s policeman is stupid.
Exactly. Perhaps the UNaccountable bureacrats need some Kinetic Military Action (KMA) to get the real slaughter under control. /sarcasm
FUN (aka F-UN)
800 people a couple days ago, and 1,000 bodies discovered yesterday, and not one single solitary picture provided by the cockroach media. All the technology that is enthusiastically and fervently used by the cockroaches to embarass or impune conservative as “inhumane or indifferent” to suffering and genocide around the world, has apparently been switched off to protect the big-eared moron, O-hole.
That's easy enough to explain. None of the corpses were found with underwear over their heads.
In answering your question, ask yourself if the Ivory Coast has oil, and if so, is it needed by the US or Europe. If not, then do not look for those launch of Tomahawks, etc. /s =.=
No oil, but the cocoa crop could be worth saving as many of our woman-folk are a bit dependent on this commodity - and thus, the happiness of our lives is likewise. If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!
SAVAGES !
Time for Samantha Powers to swing into action and lob some more cruise missiles at someone.
Is Samantha Powers related to Austin Powers?
I suppose that this massacre proves the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast had good reason to stay in power after losing the election.
So, is France going to bomb the paramilitary columns of the democratically-elected President of the Ivory Coast in order to protect a civilian minority from massacres like these?
Let this serve as a lesson to advocates of the 'partition' solution for peace in Libya, where some rebel outfit territory is recognized by Western nations as the 'government in waiting' and UN peacekeepers stand guard over an artificial geographic construct of a divided nation like is being proposed in the stalemate against Ghadafy.
President George Washington, on behalf of anti-Interventionist Americans everywhere, I apologize to you for failing you.
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