The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced Wednesday that it wants to open an investigation into the "massacres committed in a systematic or widespread" in Ivory Coast. The prosecutor's office conducted a "preliminary review of the situation in Ivory Coast and then the prosecutor will ask its own initiative, the Pre-Trial Chamber to authorize him to open an investigation," said Moreno-Ocampo said in a statement .
"If a state party to the Rome Statute defers the situation in Ivory Coast to the ICC Prosecutor, the office can more quickly open an investigation and prepare from now an arrest warrant against those most responsible", he explained Moreno Ocampo. The country faces a serious crisis for four months, after the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to concede defeat in presidential elections last November.
Gbagbo's supporters and the president-elect, Alassane Ouatara, have faced throughout the country. The civilian killings are attributed to both sides. According to United Nations and several international organizations, decision-Duékoué-important cross-western Ivory Coast on March 29 by the men of Ouattara estivo accompanied by large massacres.
Discuss the different balances between 330 and thousands of 'dead or missing. " "The Office is very concerned about the deteriorating situation in Ivory Coast, including the latest information on alleged mass killings in the western country," Ocampo attorney's office in the note. ICC prosecutors a few months ago launched preliminary investigations into alleged crimes against humanity, including sexual violence allegedly committed in Côte d'Ivoire between 2002 and 2005, but until now had not specified that their investigations also included the latest developments in that country.
Ivory Coast is not a State Party to the Rome Statute, which governs the Court, but both Gbagbo and Ouattara have confirmed that body that accept its jurisdiction, according to the prosecution. 
"If a state party to the Rome Statute defers the situation in Ivory Coast to the ICC Prosecutor, the office can more quickly open an investigation and prepare from now an arrest warrant against those most responsible", he explained Moreno Ocampo. The country faces a serious crisis for four months, after the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to concede defeat in presidential elections last November.
Gbagbo's supporters and the president-elect, Alassane Ouatara, have faced throughout the country. The civilian killings are attributed to both sides. According to United Nations and several international organizations, decision-Duékoué-important cross-western Ivory Coast on March 29 by the men of Ouattara estivo accompanied by large massacres.
Discuss the different balances between 330 and thousands of 'dead or missing. " "The Office is very concerned about the deteriorating situation in Ivory Coast, including the latest information on alleged mass killings in the western country," Ocampo attorney's office in the note. ICC prosecutors a few months ago launched preliminary investigations into alleged crimes against humanity, including sexual violence allegedly committed in Côte d'Ivoire between 2002 and 2005, but until now had not specified that their investigations also included the latest developments in that country.
Ivory Coast is not a State Party to the Rome Statute, which governs the Court, but both Gbagbo and Ouattara have confirmed that body that accept its jurisdiction, according to the prosecution.
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