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.
>
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> "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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