Latest update: 11/04/2011 

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Ivory Coast: are both camps responsible for mass killings?

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A special programme on Ivory Coast. The biggest victims of the fighting in the country are civilians; we investigate the massacres reportedly committed by both sides of the political divide. Also, what is France’s role in the country that once was a French colony?

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shame to un an france

by Anonyme - 12/04/2011 - 16:18

united nation and france are both responsible for all the deaths in ivory coast.
IS COCOA YOUR PROBLEM
CAMEROONIANS ARE WAITING TO SEE WHAT FRANCE WILL DO IN THE 2011 OCTOBER ELECTION
MAY GOD DEAL WITH UN AND FRANCE
PLEASE DONT KILL GBAGBO LIKE THOMAS SANKARA, PATRICK LOMOMBA ETC ETC.
SHAME TO BAD PEOPLE

France must take full

by Anonyme - 10/04/2011 - 03:41

France must take full responsibility as well as the international committee using Alasane Ouattara to destroy it own country. You put Gbagbo on in corner. What do you want him to do? I will love to see the same thing start in French in order to see if the international committee will act the same way. Please stop your colonial oppression idea. African leaders are not smart and still didn’t get it.

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