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To the Government of Côte d’Ivoire
- Acknowledge and condemn unlawful killings committed by
state security and militia forces since September 2002.
- Acknowledge the existence of and take concrete measures to
put an end to the practice of extortion of civilians who are stopped under
the pretext of identity checks.
- Investigate and punish in accordance with international
standards crimes committed by state security forces in violation of
international law including extrajudicial execution, torture, physical
abuse, and harassment and extortion of civilians.
- End incitement of hatred, intolerance, and violence by
state-run broadcasters and print journalists, and punish them as
appropriate in accordance with international fair trial principles. Create
an independent body to monitor hate speech that incites violence.
- Work with the New Forces to develop modalities for the
redeployment of judicial officials, even if on a limited basis, as soon as
possible to the territory under New Forces control.
- Acknowledge and condemn unlawful killings committed by
rebel forces since September 2002.
- Acknowledge the existence of and take measures to put an
end to the practice of extortion of civilians.
- Investigate and hold accountable in accordance with
international standards those responsible for crimes in violation of
international law committed by rebel forces, including extrajudicial
execution, extortion and robbery of civilians and civilian property.
- Work with the Government to develop modalities for the redeployment
of judicial officials, even if on a limited basis, as soon as possible to
the territory under New Forces control.
- Further the work of the U.N. Sanctions Committee and
immediately activate travel and economic sanctions against additional
individuals identified as responsible for serious violations of
international human rights and humanitarian law, who break the U.N. arms
embargo, or who publicly incite hatred and violence.
- Expedite the publication of the report of the U.N.
Commission of Inquiry into human rights violations committed since 2002,
and meet to discuss its findings and recommendations.
- Increase resources to UNOCI for monitoring of radio and
television broadcasts that incite hatred, intolerance, or violence.
- Ensure that UNOCI forces can provide protection to all
civilians whose security is at risk because of communal tension or threats
from abusive armed forces.
- Make public the results of its investigation into the
deaths of five civilians during the mid-January 2006 demonstrations as
soon as possible, and if and where there has been misconduct identified
hold those responsible accountable.
- Ensure that all peacekeepers in Côte d’Ivoire are trained
to respond in a proportionate and graduated manner to threats of violence
or intensification of violence and that they have the necessary equipment
to ensure that they can have recourse to non-lethal methods of public
crowd control.
- Increase monitoring of civil and political rights,
including the ability of individuals to associate freely, the ability of
political parties and their supporters to organize and campaign, and the
ability of the press freely to cover electoral developments, in the run-up
to elections planned for later this year.
- Promptly dispatch a mission to Côte d’Ivoire to assess the
possibility of an ICC investigation and indicate that the ICC is
monitoring abuses committed there.
- Issue a clear public message that the ICC will be playing
a role in securing accountability for abuses in Côte d’Ivoire, and that
national authorities should also be taking steps to commence appropriate
national prosecutions for serious crimes.
To the United States, the European Union and
other international donors
- Call publicly and privately on both the Ivorian government
and New Forces leadership to investigate and, where applicable, punish in
accordance with international standards those responsible for crimes in
violation of international law committed by security forces, including
extrajudicial execution, torture, physical abuse, and harassment and
extortion of civilians.
- Condition military or police assistance to the Ivorian
government (with the exception of human rights training), on the
investigation and prosecution of those accused of such abuses.
- Give political, financial, and other support to any
judicial mechanisms meeting international fair trial standards set up to
ensure accountability for perpetrators of serious crimes under
international law.
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