On the issue of the constitutional court as the highest electoral body, we would have to deal with the kind of mathematics undertaken by the court, and the nature of its ruling, granting what was not asked for, in order to be able to actually come to the conclusion that Gbagbo has a case. The ruling of these court needs to be carefully analysed against the backdrop of the complaint brought before it; and this is not yet discussing the veracity of the claims brought forward in the first instance.
Regards,
JG
From: Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com>
To: USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: BBC: All sides in Ivory Coast to face justice, Ouattara says
It's interesting to note that from Gbagbo's intransigent point of view
the the Ivory Coast's Constitutional Court is the Ivory Coast's
highest electoral body , authorized to declare winners of elections,
and no other outside body.
Gbagbo's military were therefore taking orders from their
Constitutionally endorsed president and commander-in-chief of the
national army and not from the leader of the rebel " force nouvelles"
or any other anti- government militia....
Any way you look at it, it seems to me that he has a case, and
Quattara too has a case to face....
On Apr 13, 5:11 pm, Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi <ije...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13067609
>
> 13 April 2011 Last updated at 10:44 ET
>
> Ivory Coast's new President Alassane Ouattara has said all sides in the
> country's conflict must face justice.
>
> He said he would ask the International Criminal Court to probe massacres in
> which both his forces and those of his rival Laurent Gbagbo were suspected.
> Mr Gbagbo was captured on Monday by Mr Ouattara's forces after he refused to
> accept he lost elections in November.
> He will now face charges at a "national level and an international level", Mr
> Ouattara said.
> At a news conference in the main city of Abidjan, Mr Ouattara said Mr Gbagbo
> had been moved to a secure location.
> During the four-month stand-off between Mr Gbagbo and Mr Ouattara about 1,500
> people were killed and a million forced from their homes.
> The conflict threatened to plunge the country back into civil war, with Mr
> Ouattara's supporters controlling the north and Mr Gbagbo's in control of the
> south.
> Mr Ouattara said the justice minister was preparing a case against Mr Gbagbo,
> but he would be treated with respect.
> "There will be charges on a national level and an international level," he
> said.
>
> Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.
>
> "Gbagbo is in a residence under surveillance somewhere in Ivory Coast," Mr
> Ouattara told reporters at the Golf Hotel, where has made his headquarters
> during the crisis.
> "Mr Laurent Gbagbo is a former head of state, he must be treated with
> consideration."
> The ex-president had first been taken to the Golf Hotel after Mr Ouattara's
> forces, with French support, had removed him from the presidential palace.
> Mr Ouattara said he had phoned South Africa's President Jacob Zuma for advice
> about setting up a credible and independent truth and reconciliation committee.
> It would be asked to consider atrocities from the 1990s to the present day.
> "Reconciliation has to happen with justice," he said.
> Mr Ouattara said he would be moving in a few days into the presidential palace
> and that a formal swearing-in ceremony would follow.
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: BBC: All sides in Ivory Coast to face justice, Ouattara says
It's interesting to note that from Gbagbo's intransigent point of view
the the Ivory Coast's Constitutional Court is the Ivory Coast's
highest electoral body , authorized to declare winners of elections,
and no other outside body.
Gbagbo's military were therefore taking orders from their
Constitutionally endorsed president and commander-in-chief of the
national army and not from the leader of the rebel " force nouvelles"
or any other anti- government militia....
Any way you look at it, it seems to me that he has a case, and
Quattara too has a case to face....
On Apr 13, 5:11 pm, Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi <ije...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13067609
>
> 13 April 2011 Last updated at 10:44 ET
>
> Ivory Coast's new President Alassane Ouattara has said all sides in the
> country's conflict must face justice.
>
> He said he would ask the International Criminal Court to probe massacres in
> which both his forces and those of his rival Laurent Gbagbo were suspected.
> Mr Gbagbo was captured on Monday by Mr Ouattara's forces after he refused to
> accept he lost elections in November.
> He will now face charges at a "national level and an international level", Mr
> Ouattara said.
> At a news conference in the main city of Abidjan, Mr Ouattara said Mr Gbagbo
> had been moved to a secure location.
> During the four-month stand-off between Mr Gbagbo and Mr Ouattara about 1,500
> people were killed and a million forced from their homes.
> The conflict threatened to plunge the country back into civil war, with Mr
> Ouattara's supporters controlling the north and Mr Gbagbo's in control of the
> south.
> Mr Ouattara said the justice minister was preparing a case against Mr Gbagbo,
> but he would be treated with respect.
> "There will be charges on a national level and an international level," he
> said.
>
> Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.
>
> "Gbagbo is in a residence under surveillance somewhere in Ivory Coast," Mr
> Ouattara told reporters at the Golf Hotel, where has made his headquarters
> during the crisis.
> "Mr Laurent Gbagbo is a former head of state, he must be treated with
> consideration."
> The ex-president had first been taken to the Golf Hotel after Mr Ouattara's
> forces, with French support, had removed him from the presidential palace.
> Mr Ouattara said he had phoned South Africa's President Jacob Zuma for advice
> about setting up a credible and independent truth and reconciliation committee.
> It would be asked to consider atrocities from the 1990s to the present day.
> "Reconciliation has to happen with justice," he said.
> Mr Ouattara said he would be moving in a few days into the presidential palace
> and that a formal swearing-in ceremony would follow.
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