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Ivory Coast Troubled By One-Sided Justice


Ron Burgundy
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FILE In this May 21, 2011 file photo, traditional hunters known as 'Dozo' line the road to hold back gathered crowds outside the venue for Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara's inauguration, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast. Two years after the country's violent postelection conflict, only supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo have been charged for crimes, although it is widely acknowledged that abuses were committed on both sides. Meanwhile, violence continues to be inflicted with impunity on some Gbagbo supporters, preventing reconciliation in the country, according to a report issued Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 by Amnesty International. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)NIAMBLY, Ivory Coast (AP) — One day in late March 2011, at the height of Ivory Coast's postelection violence, a 23-year-old cocoa farmer was shot in the back by unknown gunmen and left for dead on the outskirts of Niambly, a village of 400 mud-brick houses three kilometers outside the western town of Duekoue.




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