Posted on 06/18/2011 7:34:56 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
(Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official expressed concern on Wednesday over acts of violence allegedly carried out by members of Ivory Coast's new army, including reports of summary executions, rape and torture.
The former rebel Forces Republicaines Cote d'Ivoire (FRCI) is now the backbone of the west African state's armed forces after the ousting of ex-president Laurent Gbagbo two months ago.
"Lack of discipline and violence on the part of the newly established army, the FRCI, which is composed of several different groups with no clear command structure, are ... of serious concern," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement.
"There are reports alleging that soldiers were involved in human rights violations in both Abidjan and the rest of the country, including summary executions, arbitrary arrest, torture, rape, looting and extortion."
Pillay, a former U.N. war crimes judge, made the comments as she presented a report on Ivory Coast to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Ivory Coast plunged into a four-month conflict after a disputed presidential election last November which U.N.-certified results showed Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara, but Gbagbo refused to step-down.
The conflict, which killed about 3,000 and displaced over a million, ended in April after troops loyal to Ouattara swept through the country and ousted Gbagbo with the help of U.N. and French forces.
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M-U-S-L-I-M.
The UN idiots got exactly the government they connived to get. They threw out the legitimate president through the UN supervised and manipulated elections, and now have the gumption to whine that the new government (that they imposed to satisfy the French) is corrupt. DUH!
The UN bears full responsibility for the actions of their puppets.
To hell with the UN. Leave it, kick them out, and make the building a new national firearms museum.
US out of the UN, UN out of the US.
No, you won’t get that in NYC until we get a freedom-loving governor, and a freedom-loving mayor.
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