Cote d'Ivoire: Senior UN Official Deplores Deadly Clashes

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People fleeing the Abobo district of Abidjan (file photo).

The top United Nations official in Cote d"Ivoire today deplored the deadly clashes in the west of the country that have reportedly killed at least six people this weekend.

Bert Koenders, the Secretary-General"s Special Representative and the head of the UN peacekeeping operation (UNOCI) in the West African country, voiced concern in a statement in what he described as "these regrettable events."

Media reports indicate at least six people have died in Vavoua as a result of clashes between Government forces and armed forces.

The mission said it has dispatched civilian, police and military staff to the Vavoua area to examine the situation and try to help restore calm.

"UNOCI launches an appeal to the competent authorities to have appropriate investigations carried out to determine the circumstances surrounding the incidents, identify those responsible and take adequate measures in keeping with the law," the mission said in a press release.

UNOCI urged both the military and the general population to be calm and to avoid taking actions that would further deteriorate the situation in Vavoua and elsewhere.

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  • ras sideeq
    Dec 19 2011, 22:53

    WHOEVER IS DOING THE PUSHING WHILE TH PEOPLE ARE FLEEING IS ATRAVESTY. THE FRENCH 1 NO WONDER THEY HAVE PPPROBLEMS IN FRANCE THEY WER EJUST TOO GREEDY AND THEIR GOVERNMENT THEIR SELECTE TP RUN THIS COUNTRY HAS ALIENATED MANY WISE PEOPLE THERE IS NOTHING TO SAY THIS WAS SAD DAY IN AFRICAN AFFAIRS WHEN WE ALLOWED A DEMOCRACY TO BE CRUSHED BY TYRANNY FROM OUTSIDERS WHILE TODAY THERE IS ANOTHER BLACK MANSOLD TO SLAVERY WHOM THEY REFUSE TOLET GO EVN THOUGH THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOUNDIN THEIR COURT OF LAW. THIS IS MY ANSWER TO ALL THE NAY SAYERS WHY IS THIS BLACK MANTHER IN TH FIRST PPLACE TEN WHEN FOUND GUILTY OCAMPOS DECIDES HE HAS THE MOST POWER AND THE BENCH HAS NO AUTHORITY OVER HIM ONLY THE NATO BOSSES CAN TELL HIM WHAT TO DO. SO ARE YOU BROTHERS OBSERVING SLAVERY AT HAND. IT WAS THE SAME IN THE 15TH CENTURY A YOUNG PRINCE FROM CONGO WAS OFFEERED A TRIP TO EUPOESO THE GREAT KING AGREED AS HE WANTED TO ESTABLISH TIES AND A CORDIAL AND TRADING RELATIONSHIP. AS FOR THE PORTUGESE THEY WERE UP TO NO GOOD THEY TOOK THE YOUNG PRINCE HAD HIM LIKE AA CIRCUS ACT OVER EUROPE MOCKINGHIM AN DRIDICULING HIM HE BECAME HEART BROKEN SO AT SOME POINT THE KING SET OUT TO RECOVER HIS SON. WHAT HE DIID GOES DOWN AS THE GREATEST BETRAYL OF ALL TIMES THEY BROUGHT T THE PORUGESE THOUSANDS OF ATLENST OF GOLD ; THIS ONLY MADE THEM GREEDIER SO THEY RACED THRU THE SEAT OF THKINGDOM DESTROYING RAPING LOOTING AND AT THE END OF THE DAY MANY OF THE PEPLE WERE ENSLAVED SO THESE ARE THE TRICKS THY HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR CENTURIES SO WEHN YOU SPEAK OF SENDING AFRICANS TO EUROPE TO E TRIED THEN WE KNOW THAT SHALL NEVER EVER AGIN BE AREALITY FOR AFRICANS. LOOOK AT TH RWANDAN THEY STILL WANT HIM IN CHAINS EVN IF HE DID SOME THING THE COURTS WERE UNABLE TO FIND THIS SO TY REQUESTED THAT HE BE RELEASED YET OCAMPS THINKS HE IS BIGERTHAN THE LAW HE IS A PUPPET FOR NATO SO HOW CAN WE EVEN THINK ABOUT THIS BLACK WOMAN THIS IS NOT EVEN FEASIBLE SHE IS THERE T BRING AFRICANS INTO SLQAVERY. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT CHEEK SHE COULDNEVER EVER CRUSH AN ISRAELIU NO A WESTERN NATO FOR THEIR MURDEWRS IN IRAQ NOW LIBYA. THEY MURDRERD SO MUCH IN LIBYA ITS UNBELEIVEABLE CLUSTER BOMBS TITANIUM TIPPED BOMBS THEY DIDI IT ALL . THIS ICC IS TRYING TO BE THE AFRICAN JYNX THEY ARETRYING TO JUDGE US WHILE THEY GO UNRELENTING SODOMISING MURDERING PIRTING TORTURING WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TORTURE FOR BLACKS WE MENA THE REAL THING. THE CUTTING OFF OF GENITALS FOR TROPHYS THE QUARTERING WHEN YOU ARE VIRUTUALY PULLED APART WITH BABY IN TOWE SO THE BABY POPS OUT. THEN THERE IS TARING ANF FEATHERING THIS OF COURSE IS WITH HOT ATRTHEN THERE IS POLEING WHEREA TREE IS SHINE CLEANED THEN THE TOP IS SHARPENED POINTEDLY LIKE A STEEPR;L ON A CHAPEL THEN IT IS THEN INSERTED UP THE RECTUM OF THE BLACK MAN AND SENT THRU THE TOP OF HIS BRAIN. WE MUST NOT FORGET LYNCHING THEN DOUSE WITH PETROL SET YOU ALIGHT THEN WE HAD THE AMPUTATIONS OF LIMBS. WE ALSO HAD TO WATCH WHILE OUR CHILDREN WERE EITHER SODMISED BY ENSLAVER OR HIS WIFE THEY WERE VERY SADISTIC PEOPLE THEY MURDERD FOR FUNTHEY ABUSED CHILDREN REGULARLY LITTLE BOYS WERE SODMISED THIS SI WHY THEY WANT TO CONTIUE THE PRACTISE IN AFRICA NOW LEGALY. THE VATICAN BLOOD FIRE FOR THEM HAS RUN OUT OF EUROPEANS TO SODMISE THEY ATRE CHILDRN OF SOME DESTRUCTION THEIR MINDS MUST BE CONFUSED. THIS IS WHY AFRICA MUST PULL UP ITS SOCKS AS E NO LONGR WER SHORT PANTS

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