Ghana\u2019s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has described the arrest of Cote d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s President Laurent Gbagbo on Monday as a repetition of the tragedy of DR Congo\u2019s Patrice Lumumba in 1960.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the events surrounding Gbagbo\u2019s arrest, President Rawlings said: \u201cFifty years down the road, with Africa still groping for freedom and justice, Black Africa repeats the tragedy of Patrice Lumumba, while next door fellow Arabs are fighting and dying for their freedoms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhither are we bound,\u201d he asked. He said \u201cThe violent mishandling of the arrest of Gbagbo and members of his family, particularly the humiliation of his wife by rebel forces is a further indictment on some members of the international community.”<\/p>\n
The former President said there were verifiable reports that rebels are abducting women and girls in certain populated districts of Abidjan, citing the case of the Yopougon Sicogi district of Abidjan where house-to-house \u2018cleansing\u2019 operations have been ongoing since Tuesday with men being executed and women and girls abducted.<\/p>\n
He told Myjoyonline.com that \u201cReports by the Red Cross and other international organisations of the massacre of 800 in Duekoue by the advancing rebel forces and the failure to lay the blame where it belongs by the international community further exposes biases in the Ivorian crises.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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