MASSACRE: MUSLIM TROOPS SLAUGHTER 1,000 CHRISTIANS IN IVORY COAST
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, April 3, 2011, 10:22 PM
(UPDATED & BUMPED)
At least 1,000 Christians were slaughtered this week in at the Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekoue, Ivory Coast by Muslim troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara. The state-run media has been slow to report the story.
More below…
The conflict in Ivory Coast began in 2002. The country is divided between the Muslim north and Christian south.
This is a conflict that has been brewing for years.
Troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the Muslim opposition leader, moved south this past week. They slaughtered 1,000 civilians in Duekoue last week. The victims were mostly men who were shot as they fled the city.
Business Week reported:
Charity workers who reached Duekoue said it appeared the killings had taken place in a single day, shortly after the town fell to troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the man internationally-recognised as having won last year’s presidential election.
The apparent massacre came despite the presence of United Nations troops and – if confirmed – will cast a shadow over Mr Outtara’s assumption of the Ivory Coast’s presidency after a four-month battle to oust Lawrence Gbagbo, the former president who lost the November election but refused to step down.
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said he was “gravely concerned” by the violence and loss of life in Ivory Coast and added: “I am determined that all alleged human rights abuses… must be investigated and those responsible held to account…
…The International Committee for the Red Cross said its staff discovered more than 800 bodies of people who were clearly local civilians. They were mainly men who had been shot and left where they fell, the organisation said, either alone or in small groups dotted around the town, which lies at the heart of Ivory Coast’s economically crucial cocoa producing region.
The charity said it had been told by locals that intercommunal violence erupted soon after Mr Ouattara’s forces took control of the town on Monday. Thousands of people left their homes to escape the fighting and an estimated 40,000 sought refuge in a nearby Roman Catholic mission’s compound. The priests who operate it are running short of food, clean water and medical equipment to treat those they say arrived with gunshot wounds.
The bodies are thought to be of those who did not reach sanctuary in time. They were killed despite 200 United Nations troops operating what it said were “robust” patrols from its base on the outskirts to protect civilians in and around the church.
Caritas reported that the massacre took place in the ‘Carrefour’ quarter of town, controlled by pro-Ouattara forces, during clashes on Sunday 27 March to Tuesday 29 March.
30,000 civilians are trapped in a Catholic church compound.
On Tuesday two towns in the west, Daloa and Duekoue, fell to Mr Ouattara’s supporters after fierce gun battles.
The fighting trapped 30,000 people in a church compound in Duekoue, missionaries said. Many reportedly had gunshot wounds but could not reach hospitals on the other side of the front line.
Mr Ouattara’s supporters also captured Bondoukou in the east and were said to be advancing unimpeded south along the Ghanaian border towards Agnibilekrou. Mr Gbagbo’s camp confirmed that they had retreated, but vowed to fight back.
UPDATE: Atlas has been predicting this.
UPDATE: The Muslim troops slaughtered several hundred Catholics at at the sprawling Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekou.
Herald Scotland reported:
A massacre in a Roman Catholic mission compound in the heart of the Ivory Coast’s cocoa-producing region could come to be seen as a crucial moment in the West African state’s escalating civil war.
Reports are mounting of atrocities by both sides in the conflict − those loyal to head of state Laurent Gbagbo, besieged in his presidential residence in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, and those who follow northern leader and president-elect Allasane Ouattara.
Events at the Italian Salesian Roman Catholic mission in Duekoue increasingly echo a notorious church massacre during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Early reports suggested that more than 800 people, largely from the Gbagbo-supporting Gueré tribe, were killed in a single day at the sprawling Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekoue, 300 miles west of Abidjan towards the Liberian border. The attackers seem to have been largely soldiers descended from Burkina Faso immigrant Muslim families loyal to Ouattara.
Late yesterday the Roman Catholic charity Caritas said more than 1000 people were massacred in Duekoue. A Caritas spokesman said Caritas workers visited the town and reported seeing a neighbourhood filled with bodies of people who had been shot and hacked to death with machetes.
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NeoKong commented:
Are we sure about who is responsible….?
But Human Rights Watch did have this to say about Gbagbo’s forces and their recent acts.
They also state that Quattara’s forces have done some bad things too but Quattara is calling for a U.N. investigation into the matter.
Let’s make sure we got the right guy.
bg commented:
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Blacks are being massacred all over Africa..
flashback to Kenya, where Obama’s hands are dirty for certain..
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Rancid commented:
re: “The bodies are thought to be of those who did not reach sanctuary in time. They were killed despite 200 United Nations troops operating what it said were “robust” patrols from its base on the outskirts to protect civilians in and around the church. ”
Robust? The United Nations peacekeepers, robust? These are the same ‘peacekeepers’ who have secured southern Lebanon from Hezbollah reasserting control on Israel’s northern border? My guess is they were ‘robustly’ looking for little girls to rape and homes to pillage.
bg commented:
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this has ben going on for over a decade.
flashback to 2000:
Mob Attacks Quattara’s Home
[Rival political protestors of Ouattara and Gbagbo clashed with sticks and stones in different parts of Abidjan. The Gbagbo youths roaming the streets, and wearing crowns of leaves and black paint, seemed to benefit from the help of paramilitary police. They hunted down people they took for Ouattara loyalists who were stripped naked, whipped and kicked.]
flashforward to 2010:
ECOWAS Recognises Quattara as Leader
[Seven Heads of State of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) rose from a special emergency meeting in Abuja yesterday recognizing Mr. Alassane Ouattara as the new president of Cote d'Ivoire. They also ordered the incumbent, Mr. Laurent Gbagbo to hand over power to him immediately.]
World Calls for End to Violence Against Civilians
[Fighters backing Cote D'ivoire's elected President Alassane Outtara, are
attacking the residence of the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, in the city of
Abidjan.
An Outtara spokesman says they are meeting some resistance.
Outtara's forces swept into the commercial capital on Thursday,
and have also taken control of the state TV broadcaster.
Gbagbo has refused to give up power despite losing last November's
election, according to results verified by local and international officials.]
much more in comments..
ie: U.S. Says Gbagbo Must Go Now
[The United States has called on Côte d'Ivoire stongman Laurent Gbagbo to
step down immediately claiming he is pushing the West African nation into
lawlessness.]
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american patriot commented:
Muslims being Muslims.
This must be discussed over and over and over again, until the West fully understands the very nature of Islam.
Khomeini, Iran’s loony but dangerous mullah, stated when assuming power in 1979:
“The great prophet of Islam [Big Mo himself, -ed.] carried in one hand the Koran and in the other a sword; the sword for crushing the traitors and the Koran for guidance. … Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels but a religion of guidance for other people. … We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry “There is no God but God” resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.”
This is the same Khomeini who also said, “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”
I believe him.
Islam is nothing but threats – “accept Islam” – and violence – “or we will kill you.”
Valerie commented:
#6 April 3, 2011 at 4:03 pm
american patriot commented:
You absolutely have the Islamist talking points down, exactly. The advertising campaign of the Hamas Covenant has been successful.
And if the Islamists win the argument among Muslims, then you are right, and they will be exterminated.
reliapundit commented:
if obama was really trying to help the muslim brotherhood and their ilk would he be doing anything differently?
nope.
apodoca commented:
Muslims never regard a church compound as sacred and off-limits. Yet, we treat mosques as though they are sacred. We ought to correct that imbalance.
Floyd Looney commented:
The women and children will be raped and forced into Islam.
Great allies Obama makes.
No Man commented:
Elections only count when the liberal terror symapthizers and actual terrorists win.
Sounds like Wisconsin
kansas commented:
So is this new or has the MSM decided we need more foreign entanglements? Well, African Muslim slaughter is not new so why are we being fed this now? I guess Ogabe didn’t spend enough in Libya and gas prices are not high enough. Let’s send troops to Africa, drain the strategic reserve, stop importing foreign oil while not increasing domestic production and fret about what has gone wrong.
Old One commented:
Un troops in Ivory Coast allow massacres of Christians. UN troopds infect Haitians with cholera. Cholera had been wiped out in Haiti nearly 100 years ago until UN troops from Banladesh & Nepal brought it back by emptying their latrines into a river that flows to sea through Haiti’s most densely populated region. Keep in mind The Obamanation has put the UN in charge of our foreign policy in Libya.
elhrac commented:
R2p anyone?
bg commented:
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Valerie #7
truly heartbreaking for me to see that so many so called “compassionate”
conservatives are so callous, not to mention ill-informed, feeding the AQ-
UN push for depopulation and control via an global Islamic conflict.. *sigh*
Zawahiri
[However, despite all of this, I say to you: that we are in a battle, and that
more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media.
And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our
Umma.]
that said:
[Religion
Traditional religions, followed by almost two-fifths of the population,
continue to predominate among rural communities. Islam is followed by
about one-quarter of the population, found primarily in the northwest
and in Abidjan. Almost one-third of the population is Christian, mostly
Roman Catholic or Methodist. Also present in the country are followers
of the Harrist faith, a syncretic religion indigenous to Côte d’Ivoire.]
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wow commented:
#14 April 3, 2011 at 4:47 pm
elhrac commented:
Exactly.
bg commented:
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elhrac #14
RtoP
[138. Each individual State has the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. This responsibility entails the prevention of such crimes, including their incitement, through appropriate and necessary means. We accept that responsibility and will act in accordance with it. The international community should, as appropriate, encourage and help States to exercise this responsibility and support the United Nations in establishing an early warning capability.
139. The international community, through the United Nations, also has the responsibility to use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means, in accordance with Chapters VI and VIII of the Charter, to help protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. In this context, we are prepared to take collective action, in a timely and decisive manner, through the Security Council, in accordance with the Charter, including Chapter VII, on a case-by-case basis and in cooperation with relevant regional organizations as appropriate, should peaceful means be inadequate and national authorities manifestly fail to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. We stress the need for the General Assembly to continue consideration of the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and its implications, bearing in mind the principles of the Charter and international law. We also intend to commit ourselves, as necessary and appropriate, to helping States build capacity to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and to assisting those which are under stress before crises and conflicts break out.
140. We fully support the mission of the Special Adviser
of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide.]
hmmm, that is odd, i mean, both Bush & Collin Powell begged the UN to
call the slaughtering of Sudanese genocide and they adamantly refused..
“The world cannot ignore the suffering
of more than one million people.” GWB
sorry to say.. oh yes it can!! it has.. and will continue to do so until
the Elite powers that be attain their unattainable, imaginary Utopia..
still seems to me that the UN is more of a genocidal
facilitator than a buttress, but heh, what do i know..
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DomesticGoddess commented:
Are we seriously living in the 21st century?
Doug Edelman commented:
As the world’s largest exporter of Cocoa… responsible for more than half the world’s supply… The Ivory Coast represents more of America’s vital interests than did Libya! And I STILL say, no blood for chocolate!!
rbosque commented:
What, no outrage from the UN or the left? Not even crocodile tears? No stories on how we’re at fault for being “Islamophobic”?
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