Geneva .- The humanitarian situation in the financial capital of Ivory Coast, Abidjan, is "alarming", with countless corpses through the streets, with entire neighborhoods without water or electricity and food shortages, the UN warned today. In the West, the situation is not better, and the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, confirmed today that they have found the bodies of 244 Ivorian ethnic Guéré in the city of Duekoué .
The dead supporters of the president Laurent Gbabgo and who had been killed during the 28th and 29th of March when the forces of President-elect, Alassane Ouattara, took control of that city, the spokesman said. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner reported Friday that in the last 24 hours have come more than a hundred bodies, some people burned alive and others thrown into a well, in eastern Ivory Coast.
In a press conference in Geneva, the office spokesman, Rupert Colville, reported to have appeared about 60 corpses in Guiglo, 15 Duékoué and about 40 in Bloloquin. According to Colville, these killings may have been "ethnically motivated" and its perpetrators "were apparently Liberian mercenaries." In any case, he said, "It takes a little careful about attributing responsibility." This new report comes after the killings last week in Duékoué after the capture of this city by the troops of the presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara.
The two sides have accused each other of the slaughter. The International Committee of the Red Cross has reported at least 800 killed in Buékoué and the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported the discovery of a mass grave containing at least 200 bodies in this city. Indeed, the OCHA Deputy General Secretary, Valerie Amos warned Thursday in New York on the situation in which the civilian population of the Ivory Coast and on the gross human rights violations being committed in the country.
Also, Amos, recently returned from a visit "deeply disturbing" to Ivory Coast and neighboring Liberia, where thousands have fled Ivory Coast, urged the international community not to allow abuses to go unpunished. Valerie Amos also said that the UN is trying to determine who the perpetrators of the crimes and what circumstances they were committed, and warned that both witnesses have accused forces loyal to outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo and the followers of Alassane Ouattara. 
The dead supporters of the president Laurent Gbabgo and who had been killed during the 28th and 29th of March when the forces of President-elect, Alassane Ouattara, took control of that city, the spokesman said. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner reported Friday that in the last 24 hours have come more than a hundred bodies, some people burned alive and others thrown into a well, in eastern Ivory Coast.
In a press conference in Geneva, the office spokesman, Rupert Colville, reported to have appeared about 60 corpses in Guiglo, 15 Duékoué and about 40 in Bloloquin. According to Colville, these killings may have been "ethnically motivated" and its perpetrators "were apparently Liberian mercenaries." In any case, he said, "It takes a little careful about attributing responsibility." This new report comes after the killings last week in Duékoué after the capture of this city by the troops of the presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara.
The two sides have accused each other of the slaughter. The International Committee of the Red Cross has reported at least 800 killed in Buékoué and the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported the discovery of a mass grave containing at least 200 bodies in this city. Indeed, the OCHA Deputy General Secretary, Valerie Amos warned Thursday in New York on the situation in which the civilian population of the Ivory Coast and on the gross human rights violations being committed in the country.
Also, Amos, recently returned from a visit "deeply disturbing" to Ivory Coast and neighboring Liberia, where thousands have fled Ivory Coast, urged the international community not to allow abuses to go unpunished. Valerie Amos also said that the UN is trying to determine who the perpetrators of the crimes and what circumstances they were committed, and warned that both witnesses have accused forces loyal to outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo and the followers of Alassane Ouattara.
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