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COTE D’IVOIRE / POST ELECTION VIOLENCE

Soldiers loyal to the former president of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo open fire on civilians injuring four people, one seriously, while in the west of the country 16,000 people are displaced by post election violence. ONUCI
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STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE
TRT: 3.10
SOURCE: ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH/ NATS

DATELINE: 18, 19 JANUARY 2011, ATTÉCOUBE, SEBROKO, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE / 14 - 16 JANUARY 2011, MAN, WESTERN COTE D’IVOIRE

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1. Wide shot, peacekeepers at the UNOCI Headquarters entrance
2. Close up, victim’s injury
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Coulibaly Dramane, Victim:
‘’We were not far and we saw a dozen soldiers. There was a large group of people throwing stones at cars and we were confused with them. They started shooting, I took a bullet. I was with my little brother.’’
4. Med shot, injured woman
5. Med shot, peacekeeper
6. Wide shot, hospital room
7. Close up, gunshot victim
8. Close up, piece of shrapnel
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Kouassi René, Surgeon UNOCI:
‘’It is a piece of shrapnel that was lodged between the stomach and the pancreas; we have removed it and repaired the damage.’’
10. SOUNDBITE (French), Sako Mamadou, Gunshot Victim:
“There were youths who were throwing stones at cars. The soldiers shot at them and I took a bullet.’’
11. Wide shot, soldiers beating up a civilian and shooting at him when he tries to escape in front of ONUCI Headquarters

14-16 JANUARY 2011, MAN, WESTERN COTE D’IVOIRE

12. Pan right, women and children
13. Tilt up, food rations
14. Med shot, handover of oil bottle
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Ndolamb Ngokwey, Humanitarian Coordinator:
“The humanitarian community will continue to mobilize to assist the population in all these priority areas and we believe that protecting the rights of the people must remain central to our concerns.”
16. Med shot, women and children IDPs
17. SOUNDEBITE (French) Tossa Jeanne, Internally Displaced Person:
“We came there when we heard gunfire. It was not the first time, but we got scared and fled for our lives, we could not stay. We’ve been fleeing for a month and three days.”
18. Various shots, IDPs

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Storyline

Forces loyal to the former president of Côte d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo – who refuses to step down despite his electoral defeat – continues to inflict violence towards the civilian population, almost eight weeks after the 28 November run-off elections.

In the latest attack, four people were injured, one of them seriously, by bullets and shrapnel after soldiers fired on a group of youths who were throwing stones onto passing vehicles on the road, not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI).

SOUNDBITE (French), Coulibaly Dramane, Victim:
‘’We were not far and we saw a dozen soldiers. There was a large group of people throwing stones at cars and we were confused with them. They started shooting, I took a bullet. I was with my little brother.’’

On Thursday, the Human Rights Division of the ONCUI confirmed 13 new deaths due to post-electoral violence. That brings the total number of those killed since the elections to at least 260.

In addition, a reported seven new cases of disappearances – bringing the total number of missing persons to 68. He also cited cases of sexual violence in Abidjan, Bouaké, Duékoué and Man.

Dr. Kouassi René, a surgeon working for ONUCI, treated some of the victims.

SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Kouassi René, Surgeon ONUCI:
‘’It is a piece of shrapnel that was lodged between the stomach and the pancreas; we have removed it and repaired the damage.’’

SOUNDBITE (French), Sako Mamadou, Gunshot Victim:
“There were youths who were throwing stones at cars. The soldiers shot at them and I took a bullet.’’

The turmoil has displaced tens of thousands of people, mainly in the west of the country where an ethnic conflict has erupted.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Côte d’Ivoire, Ndolamb Ngokwey, said he was particularly concerned about cases of sexual violence in the western part of the country, involving minors between the ages of 6 and 9.

SOUNDBITE (French) Ndolamb Ngokwey, Humanitarian Coordinator:
“The humanitarian community will continue to mobilize to assist the population in all these priority areas and we believe that protecting the rights of the people must remain central to our concerns.”

He also gave an update on the humanitarian assistance in the West, saying that the UN was providing water, hygiene kits and medical equipment to the displaced. He said that the number of registered displaced persons remains at 16,000, with another 29,000 Ivorian refugees in Liberia and other neighbouring countries.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that an estimated 16,000 people displaced by post-election violence are in Danané, Duékoué and Man in Western Cote D'Ivoire. The majority are in a Catholic mission in Duékoué and comprise mainly women and children.

Tossa Jeanne, displaced by the conflict, talked about the reasons they fled and called for the violence to end.

SOUNDEBITE (French) Tossa Jeanne, Internally Displaced Person (IDP):
“We came there when we heard gunfire. It was not the first time, but we got scared and fled for our lives, we could not stay. We’ve been fleeing for a month and three days.”

Gbagbo has refused to step down despite the internationally recognized victory of opposition leader Alassane Ouattara. Peacekeepers from ONUCI are currently protecting Ouattara and members of his new government in Abidjan’s Golf Hotel against the already six-week blockade siege by Gbagbo loyalists.

The mission has been supporting efforts over the past seven years to reunify a country split by a civil war in 2002 into a government-controlled south and a rebel-held north. November’s run-off election was meant to be a culminating point in this process.

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