2011年4月14日星期四

Ivory Coast generals switch pages

12 April 2011 last updated at 20: 43 GMT Laurent Gbagbo and his wife, Simone, at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan (11 April 2011) Mr Gbagbo was taken, to immediately after his arrest on Monday of generals Gbagbo fought Abdijan Golf Hotel for C?te d ' Ivoire ex-leader Laurent his rivals have loyalty committed internationally recognized President Alassane Ouattara.

Mr Gbagbo arrest on Monday ended a four-month power struggle, which plunged the country into chaos.

There was confusion about his whereabouts on Tuesday, with the United Nations withdraw a previous claim that Mr Gbagbo in Abidjan was postponed.

The town remains unstable, with sporadic shots.

Five generals, Mr Gbagbo pledged remained faithful loyalty to Mr Ouattara in a ceremony on Tuesday, but there are reports that rejected some of the soldiers and militia to surrender.

Approximately 1,500 people were killed across the country and one million forced from their homes during the standoff, which began in November when Mr Gbagbo refused to accept that he had lost the presidential election.

Mr Gbagbo and his wife, Simone, were taken from his residence in Mr Ouattara headquarters at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan immediately after his arrest.

TV footage showed Mr Gbagbo sit in a room, looking dazed but apparently unharmed.

Continue reading the most important story image of Mark Doyle mark Doyle BBC News, Abidjan

Unusual scenes were out playing today on one once luxury hotel overlooking Abidjan lagoon. Pending the reconstruction of the Presidential Palace was severely damaged on Monday, remains the President of C?te d'Ivoire in combating in a hotel suite.

Show below in a conference room, the military top brass Scrum, which are a mix of officers and soldiers of both sides are for positions in a new army. President Ouattara has a military and political balancing act. On the one hand, he has the men to reward once called rebels, which come helped him to power.

On the other hand, he does not dismiss or imprison those who fought against him or he risked alienating too many men with guns. Mr Ouattara is a former international banker, a man to negotiate in meeting rooms, accustomed to not assessment of military strategy. He has it a steep learning curve before that if he is to solve the still violent situation in Abidjan and the rest of the C?te d ' Ivoire.

On Tuesday the UN spokesman Farhan Haq said initially he had moved from the hotel - was without giving any details of his whereabouts.

But Mr Haq later retracted the claim, saying: "in contrast to earlier information, Laurent Gbagbo remains in the Golf Hotel".

Mr Ouattara has promised, that Mr. Gbagbo is not damaged and "would handled".

Mr Ouattara also announced that a truth and reconciliation to would be set Commission "illuminate the massacres, crimes and all cases of violations of human rights".

Both sides have atrocities have been accused.

The UN Human Rights Council said UN staff in the West of the country since late March 536 bodies had found.

Shooting continues

In the meantime, Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro, Mr Ouattara confirmed that forces loyal Mr Gbagbo captured, have claimed supporters to them on his residence, and not French troops such as the former President.

"Arrested the officer, Mr. Gbagbo it on behalf of the Republican armed forces acts," he told a press conference in Abidjan.

Also patrols of the streets of the southern city began Mr Ouattara loyal troops on Tuesday in an attempt to restore order. Despite their presence heard sporadic gun and mortar fire.

It was not clear whether Gbagbo - thousands of those weapons in the last week - were supporters or criminal were responsible.

Inside Laurent Gbagbo Abidjan compound - footage courtesy France 24

Our correspondent says that some Abidjan residents are still afraid to leave their homes if they are captured by armed. Many have for days been caught were.

The UN are the only robust and well-organized power which new President who can count and our correspondent adds French force.

Analysts say the Pro-Ouattara forces who earlier this month swept you from their northern strongholds, include army defector, as well as the orders always not can follow ethnic militias and traditional hunters.

By the 2002 rebellion split in two, C?te d ' Ivoire - cocoa - the most developed economy in West Africa was the world's largest producer.

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