CÔTE D'IVOIRE

GOVERNMENT ABUSES IN RESPONSE TO ARMY REVOLT

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I. Summary

II. Recommendations

To the Government of Côte d'Ivoire
To the MPCI
To the International Community, in particular ECOWAS, France, the European Union and the United States
To the United Nations

III. Background

IV. Public Rhetoric Increases Tensions

V. Arbitrary Arrests and Killings as Result of Individual Denunciation-Instilling a Climate of Fear

VI. Destruction of Poor Neighborhoods Around Abidjan-A Humanitarian Tragedy

VII. Police Raids on Other Abidjan Neighborhoods-Arbitrary Arrests and Extortion

VIII. Arbitrary Arrests and Extrajudicial Killings of RDR Activists and Supporters

IX. Reported abuses committed by the MPCI

X. The Role of the International Community

Acknowledgments