Charity: more than 1000 killed in Ivorian cities.

Johannesburg (AP) — an attacker wielding machetes and unknown gun killing civilians more than 1000 in the neighborhood of the city, Ivory Coast controlled by forces that fight to install President recognized internationally. The Catholic charity Caritas told the associated press that the mission Saturday.The rak in Ivory Coast, said a monitoring team that many killings in the Western Duekoue to Australia, said most of the nearly 1000 peacekeepers who have been protecting refugees, the mission is estimated at 15000 in the town at Catholicism, Patrick Nicholson. Spokesman of the Roman Catholic charity Caritas said workers visited Duekoue on Wednesday and found hundreds of bodies of civilians killed by a bullet and fire small arms, and hacked to death with machetes they estimate more than 1000 civilians have been killed. Talk International Federation of Red Cross put the death toll at approximately 800 in the separately independent and visit Thursday and Friday.Nicholson spokesperson Caritas said the killings occurred in three days in the neighborhood that controls. By a sasue to internationally recognized President, Alassane Ouattara, though it is not clear that "massacre occurred in the quarter of the city of Carrefour. Control by forced pro-Ouattara during clashes on Sunday 27 March to 29 March Nicholson on Tuesday said "I don't know who is Caritas is responsible for the killing but said appropriate Diagnostics must occur in order to establish the truth, he said, including several fren chai refugees from the fighting elsewhere in the country has been battling debate forced through the election of November at Caritas ' investigation indicates that people were killed at close quarters in the neighborhood of the city's small, only 50000 people pro-Ouattara fighters began a two-pronged attack that they like the commercial capital Abidjan and the seat of power within days of the charge is a strong oppose to Ouattara's call for an entrenched incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to cede power after losing the November survey of. Government embattled Ouattara's camp denied the force to fight for it involved in any war, including in western Ivory Coast, but did not refer to allegations that last. Attempt to Ouattara's spokesman Saturday succeeded earlier United Nations keep the death toll from four months of 492 fight rak. Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel in Chaib Rais said he had "no special report" of the mass killings: "a fight two days before. Sunday and people were killed, but I cannot confirm those numbers Monday fighters loyal Ouattara said they seized Duekoue from Gbagbo forces but Nicholson said interviews with survivors indicate force controlled pro-Ouattara of Carrefour neighborhood by Dorothea Krimitsas spokeswoman Sunday.ICRC said "inter-communal violence" bomb has apparently Tuesday we think there is a risk that this type of incident can happen again. And hope that by calling today again for protection for the civilian population, we hope that this can be avoided in future Krimitsas told associated press by telephone from Geneva.The area has been a hotbed for conflict between the two tribe debate who support Ouattara and Gbagbo refuses to accept election defeat of his International. Organization of migration said Friday that a thousand refugees have swollen Duekoue and others with violence not fled. "Are now stranded along the path of fear of life, said some of those slaughtered were apparently killed by" mercenaries "from neighboring Liberia has reported that Liberian mercenaries to fight for both Gbagbo and the Roman Catholic bishop Ouattara.The for area right rev vs. Human Gaspard Beby Gneba said he was called by a priest from Guiglo town near Duekoue which still sheltering refugees. He said he told his asylum was dead and that they were burying two people on the Saturday.Gneba said the group in the area has a mixture of ethnic. Political and land rivalry than by the influx of thousand Ivorian refugees and established for refugees from neighboring Liberia. In January. I don't know how many people have been killed in some houses were torched and looted the others he says violence Gneba says refugee 30000 have flooded the city of 50000 from January maximum is the umbrella of the priest of the Salesian Mission in St. theresa of Jesus baby they are among more than 1 million people displaced by violence since January, "a project situation with traumatic Gneba say they need everything: food, medicine, water sanitation man lost everything. Home-clothing They don't even have a sleeping mat "Rais. Colonel ekrak said there are nearly 400 peacekeepers by Guiglo who has made what he could help with water and food, Ouattara's Government. On Friday, responding to allegations of corruption by Amnesty International, General statements on any killings blamed Gbagbo forces that he retreatedOuattara for appulo.us. try to distance itself from the Northern pair taken his reason is divided into two countries that fought in the brief civil war nearly a decade ago that left. Those fighters have been accused of numerous war crisis in time, but Ouattara's repeated calls for international intervention to force by force from Gbagbo and end the violence that went unheeded this week between change tack as rebel fighters began to advance on Abidjan calling for swift "force" the Government rejected the accusation they firmly rejected all manner of Republic of Ivory Coast forces in violation of any of the said statement of Friday, Human Rights Watch. Exit statement Saturday said it had documented numerous large disadvantage is perpetrated by forces loyal to Gbagbo with real or perceived Ouattara's supporters, including from a West African immigrants and Muslim disadvantages. Specified are target killings forced disappearances, rapes motivated political and illegal use of force against the unarmed demonstrators war materiel command that "these disadvantages. Define interval one four months by the security forces under the control of militias loyal to Gbagbo and his might, depending on the level of a crime against humanity is not possible immediately to Gbagbo or his ministers, but the organization according to New York, said the guard war made by pro-Ouattara risk that percent the crime war. Combining the three detainees write life and four that were slit throats, all in Abidjan Human Rights Watch. It also received reliable reports of disadvantages of mandatory action of Ouattara took control of several towns in the West (Ivory Coast), "said the killing of civilians by the pro-Ouattara forces, sometimes with the apparent motivate political or ethnic heart also risks that becomes a crime against humanity should be prevalent or system.

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