ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast’s government has displayed a “lack of impartiality” by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those who killed hundreds of men in the country’s western town of Duekoue, according to a new United Nations expert report that also criticized the indefinite and inhumane detention of those suspects that are being held.
The report by independent human rights expert Doudou Diene deplored “the slowness of the proceedings before the civil courts” and found fault with indictments leveled against top suspects. It also documented the use of torture by security forces responding to a series of attacks on military installations last year.
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