Madrid. .- The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused forces loyal to the candidate for President of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, the death of "hundreds of civilians" and the violation of over 20 women and girls in the west, and has ensured that the strength of the sitting president, Laurent Gbagbo killing nearly 150 people during their retreat from their positions on the west.
In a report released this past weekend, Human Rights Watch said the testimonies collected in the field "village to village," revealing that Ouattara militia-Republican forces in Ivory Coast (Frei) - "summarily executed and raped persons suspected supporters of Laurent Gbagbo while in their homes, working in the field, fled or tried to hide in the forest.
" "The fighters often selected their victims based on their ethnicity and the attacks were disproportionately those too old or too weak to flee," HRW reported. "It's not killing civilians or raping and Alassane Ouattara forces will end this conflict," said the director for Africa at Human Rights Watch, Daniel Bekele.
The most "outrageous", HRW recalled, is to "hundreds of civilians in the ethnic Guéré perceived as supporters of Laurent Gbagbo," which "were massacred in the village of Duékoué in the west, by a group consisting by supporters of Ouattara various forces, including Republican Forces, under the leadership of Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara, Guillaume Soro.
" The worst abuses found by Human Rights Watch occurred between 6 and March 30, 2011, as troops were seizing the towns Ouattara Toulepleu, Doke, Bloléquin, Duékoué and Guiglo, all in the west to the Gbagbo's forces. Republican forces Ouattara Republican forces, according to HRW, is a coalition "unstructured", consisting mainly of former combatants of the New Forces rebels, Soro, who controlled the northern half of the country since 2002 - and former military Army and police recently defected from the ranks of Gbagbo.
In all villages visited by Human Rights Watch, Frei rebels had "killed, raped and looted the population, mostly Guéré" according to the organization. White people from western Ivory Coast, had voted overwhelmingly in favor of Laurent Gbagbo in the presidential elections of November 2010.
Gbagbo's forces also Human Rights Watch has documented the deaths of hundreds of people from northern Ivory Coast and even from neighboring countries by Gbagbo's forces during their retreat from cities and villages to the west. Specifically, the incumbent president forces killed more than a hundred people in Bloléquin and at least 37 in-Goazon Bedi, who join the killings recorded in Guiglo, in the village of Keibli and cocoa plantations around of Zidibli.
Gbagbo's forces, formed by army soldiers and militiamen also Ivorian and Liberian mercenaries, became its hasty withdrawal from the villages conquered by Republican forces in "a last opportunity to commit atrocities against suspected supporters of Ouattara." Human Rights Watch has documented the recruitment of hundreds of Liberian mercenaries "by both parties, many of them former combatants of the" brutal civil war in Liberia.
" Mercenaries received salaries of between 300 and 500 dollars per person to fight in Ivory Coast. According to HRW, if it finally takes office, Alassane Ouattara to be opened "urgent" investigation "credible and impartial" about "the serious abuses committed by both sides" and ensure that those responsible for "all levels" will be sent to justice. 
In a report released this past weekend, Human Rights Watch said the testimonies collected in the field "village to village," revealing that Ouattara militia-Republican forces in Ivory Coast (Frei) - "summarily executed and raped persons suspected supporters of Laurent Gbagbo while in their homes, working in the field, fled or tried to hide in the forest.
" "The fighters often selected their victims based on their ethnicity and the attacks were disproportionately those too old or too weak to flee," HRW reported. "It's not killing civilians or raping and Alassane Ouattara forces will end this conflict," said the director for Africa at Human Rights Watch, Daniel Bekele.
The most "outrageous", HRW recalled, is to "hundreds of civilians in the ethnic Guéré perceived as supporters of Laurent Gbagbo," which "were massacred in the village of Duékoué in the west, by a group consisting by supporters of Ouattara various forces, including Republican Forces, under the leadership of Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara, Guillaume Soro.
" The worst abuses found by Human Rights Watch occurred between 6 and March 30, 2011, as troops were seizing the towns Ouattara Toulepleu, Doke, Bloléquin, Duékoué and Guiglo, all in the west to the Gbagbo's forces. Republican forces Ouattara Republican forces, according to HRW, is a coalition "unstructured", consisting mainly of former combatants of the New Forces rebels, Soro, who controlled the northern half of the country since 2002 - and former military Army and police recently defected from the ranks of Gbagbo.
In all villages visited by Human Rights Watch, Frei rebels had "killed, raped and looted the population, mostly Guéré" according to the organization. White people from western Ivory Coast, had voted overwhelmingly in favor of Laurent Gbagbo in the presidential elections of November 2010.
Gbagbo's forces also Human Rights Watch has documented the deaths of hundreds of people from northern Ivory Coast and even from neighboring countries by Gbagbo's forces during their retreat from cities and villages to the west. Specifically, the incumbent president forces killed more than a hundred people in Bloléquin and at least 37 in-Goazon Bedi, who join the killings recorded in Guiglo, in the village of Keibli and cocoa plantations around of Zidibli.
Gbagbo's forces, formed by army soldiers and militiamen also Ivorian and Liberian mercenaries, became its hasty withdrawal from the villages conquered by Republican forces in "a last opportunity to commit atrocities against suspected supporters of Ouattara." Human Rights Watch has documented the recruitment of hundreds of Liberian mercenaries "by both parties, many of them former combatants of the" brutal civil war in Liberia.
" Mercenaries received salaries of between 300 and 500 dollars per person to fight in Ivory Coast. According to HRW, if it finally takes office, Alassane Ouattara to be opened "urgent" investigation "credible and impartial" about "the serious abuses committed by both sides" and ensure that those responsible for "all levels" will be sent to justice.
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