{"id":379623,"date":"2011-04-13T16:35:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/13\/ouattara-vows-ivory-coast-justice\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:35:47","slug":"ouattara-vows-ivory-coast-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/ouattara-vows-ivory-coast-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouattara vows Ivory Coast justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"127.69884942471\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>13 April 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>12:35 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e0a50efb7216_de07-1.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"President Alassane Ouattara\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>Alassane Ouattara: &#8220;Mr Gbagbo is a former head of state and should be treated with consideration&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->                      <\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast&#8217;s new President Alassane Ouattara has said all sides in the country&#8217;s conflict must face justice.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gbagbo was captured on Monday by Mr Ouattara&#8217;s forces after he refused to accept he lost elections in November.<\/p>\n<p>He will now face charges at a &#8220;national level and an international level&#8221;, Mr Ouattara said.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in the main city of Abidjan, Mr Ouattara said Mr Gbagbo had been moved to a secure location.<\/p>\n<p>During the four-month stand-off between the two rivals for the presidency about 1,500 people were killed and a million forced from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The UN says fighting and looting continue in the country and aid agencies say the situation for civilians is dire, with shortages of food, water and basic services.<\/p>\n<p>The international community, including the UN, recognised Mr Ouattara as the election winner, but Mr Gbagbo said the vote was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict threatened to plunge the world&#8217;s biggest cocoa producer back into civil war, with Mr Ouattara&#8217;s supporters controlling the north and Mr Gbagbo&#8217;s in control of the south.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>Truth and reconciliation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ouattara said the justice minister was preparing a case against Mr Gbagbo, but he would be treated with respect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be charges on a national level and an international level,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gbagbo is in a residence under surveillance somewhere in Ivory Coast,&#8221; Mr Ouattara told reporters at the Golf Hotel, where he has made his headquarters during the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Laurent Gbagbo is a former head of state, he must be treated with consideration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UN said its peacekeepers in Ivory Coast had transported Mr Gbagbo to the north and were providing security for him.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-president had first been taken to the Golf Hotel after Mr Ouattara&#8217;s forces, with French support, had removed him from the presidential palace.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ouattara said he had phoned South Africa&#8217;s President Jacob Zuma for advice about setting up a credible and independent truth and reconciliation committee.<\/p>\n<p>It would be asked to consider atrocities from the 1990s to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reconciliation has to happen with justice,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>Sheltering in a church<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ouattara said he would be moving in a few days into the presidential palace and that a formal presidential swearing-in ceremony would follow.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8f5f5e3598_52138997.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Laurent Gbagbo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>Footage of the moment Laurent Gbagbo was detained<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->      <\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Council, run by an ally of Mr Gbagbo, had sworn him in as president in December, after annulling thousands of pro-Ouattara votes.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s security and resuming cocoa exports would be top priorities, the new president said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to secure the country, notably Abidjan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is important for the country to emerge from this crisis on top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exports of cocoa, the West African nation&#8217;s main foreign revenue earner, could be resumed immediately, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights group Amnesty International had earlier called on Mr Ouattara to end reprisal killings against those seen as Gbagbo supporters.<\/p>\n<p>It said some pro-Ouattara forces were going house-to-house in Abidjan, abducting and killing people.<\/p>\n<p>It also said some 27,000 people were still sheltering in a church in the western town of Duekoue, where hundreds of bodies have been found after pro-Ouattara forces advanced on Abidjan from their northern strongholds earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-africa-13067609\" title=\"Ouattara vows Ivory Coast justice\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ouattara vows Ivory Coast justice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 13 April 2011 Last updated at 12:35 ET Please turn on JavaScript. 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