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Re: La raison du plus fort.

To: Lifongo Vetinde <lifongo.vetinde@lawrence.edu>, Jean-Marc Liotier <jim@liotier.org>
Subject: Re: La raison du plus fort.
From: John Tra <jtra00@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:49:22 -0800 (PST)
Cc: afrique@univ-lyon1.fr
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voici ceux qui luttent contre l'armee francaise.

 ceux que vous appelez patriotes mais qui sont tout
simplement le peuple de CI.



--- Lifongo Vetinde <lifongo.vetinde@lawrence.edu>
wrote:

> Monsieur Liotier,
> 
>        Comparaison n'est pas raison. Il est
> indéniable qu'il y a des 
> guerres civiles en Afrique et les Africains
> s'entretuent.  Mais de là à 
> tenter de justifier le massacre des manifestants à
> Abidjan c'est de 
> faire montre d'une mentalité impérialiste malade. 
> Vous vous appuyez sur 
> l'infâme loqique qu'emploie le très guérrier
> président américain (en 
> panne de raison pour attaquer l'Irak) pour justifier
> le massacre des 
> Irakiens: "Saddam Hussein opprimait et tuait ses
> concitoyens(fosses 
> communes à l'appui)moi aussi je peux le faire pour
> les "libérer".  Comme 
> quoi, il s'est assigné la mission de continuer
> l'oeuvre de Saddam et le 
> peuple irakien est doublement victime.
>       La France peut se permettre de tuer autant
> d'Ivoiriens chez eux 
> parce que ces derniers sont engagés dans des
> quérelles intestines qui 
> tournent parfois au drame?  Voulez-vous dire que la
> CI aurait le même 
> droit d'intervenir en France et de tuer des Français
> s'il y avait des 
> tensions en Corse? Vriament, "La raison du plus fort
> est toujours la 
> meilleure" nous avait appris La Fontaine.
>         Monsieur Liotier, le massacre des innocents
> par qui que ce soit 
> est un acte ignoble et je trouve votre tentative de
> justifier ce que la 
> France vient de faire en CI tout simplement
> scandaleuse.  Les 
> agissements du gouvernement français en CI sont
> indéfendables.  Quand 
> est-ce que la France (l'Occident en général) va
> laisser l'Afrique 
> tranquille?
> 
> 
> Livet
> 
> 
> 
> Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:46:50AM -0800, John Tra
> wrote:
> > 
> >>Qui te dit que les ivoiriens s'entretueraient ?
> > 
> > 
> > Par exemple Human Right Watch, une organisation
> Américaine qu'on ne pourra donc
> > pas accuser de partialité en faveur des Français
> et qui nous fait dans le
> > rapport "Accountability for Serious Human Rights
> Crimes Key to Resolving
> > Crisis" paru en Octobre le bilan de ce qui s'est
> passé. Il y en a pour tout le
> > monde :
> > 
> >
>
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/africa/cote1004/index.htm
> > 
> > VIOLATIONS BY IVORIAN REBEL FORCES
> > 
> > The Forces Nouvelles have also attacked and killed
> civilians suspected of
> > supporting the government or ruling political
> party, enemy combatants and
> > officials and, more recently, suspected rivals and
> their supporters in clashes
> > between two rebel factions. In 2002-2003 Liberian
> and Sierra Leonean fighters
> > allied to the MPIGO and MJP committed numerous
> abuses against civilians in the
> > west, including killings, rape, and systematic
> looting of civilian property.
> > All Ivoiran rebel factions have frequently
> recruited and used child
> > combatants.6 The New Forces presently exercise
> military, economic, and
> > administrative control over some fifty percent of
> the country. Several notable
> > incidents involving rebel factions are as follows:
> > 
> > # MPCI forces summarily executed over fifty
> gendarmes and members of their
> > families in Bouaké in October 2002, and executed
> dozens of other government
> > officials, government supporters, and members of
> civilian self-defense
> > committees in other locations in the north and
> west.
> > 
> > # Members of the Ivorian rebel groups and Liberian
> recruits allied to the MPIGO
> > group were responsible for the summary executions
> of dozens of Ivorian
> > civilians in the west, including at least forty
> civilians killed in Dah village
> > in March 2003.
> > 
> > # In 2002-2003 Liberian fighters linked to the
> former government in Liberia of
> > Charles Taylor and allied to the MPIGO rebel
> groups systematically looted the
> > property of civilians around Danané,
> Zouan-Hounien, and Toulepleu and committed
> > numerous executions and other serious acts of
> violence against civilians.
> > 
> > # Some 100 people were allegedly executed or died
> in detention in and around
> > Korhogo in June 2004 during clashes between
> supporters of rebel leader
> > Guillaume Soro and rival counterpart Ibrahim
> Coulibaly.
> > 
> > VIOLATIONS BY GOVERNMENT AND PRO-GOVERNMENT FORCES
> > 
> > During the internal conflict from September 2002
> through January 2003, and
> > during the political impasse that has followed,
> Ivorian state security forces
> > and other pro-government forces, including 
> government-recruited Liberian
> > mercenaries, frequently and sometimes
> systematically executed, detained, and
> > attacked those perceived to be supporters of the
> rebel forces based on ethnic,
> > national, religious and political affiliation.
> Militia groups, tolerated if not
> > encouraged by state security forces, have engaged
> in widespread targeting of
> > the immigrant community, particularly
> village-based Burkinabé agricultural
> > workers in the west.
> > 
> > Violations of human rights and humanitarian law
> committed by  state security
> > forces and their associated militias include
> summary executions, political
> > assassinations, torture, rape and other sexual
> violence, violations of medical
> > neutrality, the wanton destruction of civilian
> property, physical attacks and a
> > crackdown on the press, and the use of child
> soldiers.4   
> > 
> > Since 2000, the government has increasingly relied
> on pro-government militias
> > for both law enforcement and, since 2002, to
> combat the rebellion. During the
> > conflict in 2002-2003, the Ivorian government's
> policy of encouraging civilians
> > to form self-defense committees and participate in
> security tasks such as
> > manning checkpoints, and their failure to hold
> them accountable for abuses, has
> > contributed to the growth and impunity of these
> groups in Abidjan and the rural
> > areas. Drawn mainly from youth supporters of the
> FPI, these groups are a
> > lightly-veiled mechanism to intimidate and abuse
> members of the political
> > opposition and those, who by virtue of their
> religion, ethnicity and/or
> > nationality, were thought to oppose the government
> (most notably Muslims,
> > northerners, and West African immigrants mostly
> from Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali,
> > and Guinea).
> > 
> > Since 2002, thousands of militant youth, the
> majority from Gbagbo?s Bete ethnic
> > group have enlisted into the state security
> forces, including the gendarmerie,
> > police, and military. Some of the more militant
> members of these institutions
> > simply refuse to obey orders from their superiors.
> This leads to a rather
> > confusing picture with respect to the security
> forces responsible for recent
> > abuses, especially given that perpetrators
> sometimes don?t wear identifying
> > insignia. Their numbers, estimated to be in the
> tens of thousands, could easily
> > exceed the numbers of the national army or
> combatants from the Forces
> > Nouvelles.5
> > 
> > Several notable atrocities allegedly committed by
> Ivorian security forces and
> > other pro-government forces, are as follows:
> > 
> 
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