Today’s topic is on Cote d’Ivoire. The government there has
yet to be fair to its citizens in following the law. The conflict stems from
the serious international crimes that occurred after the 2010-11
elections. The president declared that
he would make sure that everybody involved in the post-election violence would
be brought to justice regardless of political affiliation or military rank.
However, the president did not follow through on his promise of impartial
justice.
The majority of the 150 or so arrests have come from the
other political fraction and no arrests have been issued for the pro-presidential
forces. So the president’s promise of impartial justice has rung hollow and
will ring hollow until they admit that they need to arrest the people in the
pro-government presidential forces. “The country’s partners among them the
United States should increase diplomatic pressure.” said the UN. This kind of
thing is nasty. If they don’t act fast and make sure everything is fair the
country could descend into deadly warfare which it has for decades and that is
costly because the civilians pay the price and die from the warfare. The Human
Rights Watch found out that the Cote d’Ivoire had violated the rights to fair
trial by holding suspected post-election violence for almost two years. A fair
trial is supposed to be fair and done within a few months of the suspected
crime. What is shocking is that the US and other countries did nothing to
prevent this from descending into more violence. The ICC is now trying to
pressure the Coted’Ivoire into administrating fairness and justice for all.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/03/cote-d-ivoire-unrealized-promises-impartial-justice
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