The UN’s human rights chief in Ivory Coast has told the BBC new mass graves have been found there containing the remains of more than 50 male victims.<\/p>\n
Guillaume Ngefa said two burial sites had been found in a suburb of Abidjan.<\/p>\n
He said local people allege that many of the victims were killed by former President Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters.<\/p>\n
They said the massacre in the Yopougon district happened the day after Mr Gbagbo was seized by supporters of his opponent, President Alassane Ouattara.<\/p>\n
Football field<\/p>\n
Mr Ngefa said the UN was examining all mass graves, including those alleged to contain the bodies of Mr Gbagbo’s former supporters.<\/p>\n
The UN had announced on Friday its investigators were heading to a suspected mass grave site at a football pitch in Yopougon.<\/p>\n
Last month, UN investigators found at least 200 bodies in a mass grave in the western Ivorian town of Duekoue.<\/p>\n
In January, as the political violence escalated, UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay said Gbagbo loyalists had denied her officials access to three mass graves in the country.<\/p>\n
Mr Ouattara, Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised president, was sworn in last week.<\/p>\n
Mr Gbagbo’s refusal to cede power after losing a November election sent the nation close to repeat of its 2002-03 civil war.<\/p>\n
He is now under house arrest and is being investigated for alleged human rights abuses.<\/p>\n
Some 3,000 people are believed to have been killed during the unrest in the world’s largest cocoa producer, previously one of West Africa’s richest countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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