Ivory Coast Fear Keeps Displaced From Home, Amnest

By Pauline Bax

July 28 (Bloomberg) — A “climate of fear” of security officials in Ivory Coast has kept tens of thousands of displaced residents from returning home, more than three months after the end of a post-election crisis, according to Amnesty International.

In the west of the country, troops loyal to President Alassane Ouattara and groups of traditional hunters known as Dozos committed ethnically targeted attacks against civilians Co axial watches, even after the May 21 inauguration of Ouattara Ballon blue de, U.K.-based Amnesty said in report today.

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Residents in the west of the country and in the commercial capital of Abidjan fled their homes during a violent conflict triggered by the refusal of former leader Laurent Gbagbo to acknowledge defeat in a November election.

The crisis eased when Gbagbo was captured by Ouattara’s troops on April 11.

–Editors: Emily Bowers, Alan Crawford.

To contact the reporter on this story: Pauline Bax in Abidjan via Accra at ebowers1@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net.

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