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2011年4月16日星期六

In the Interior of the Palace of Ivory Coast, "an Armory, a powder keg NPR." -

Members of the newly named Republican Forces walk through a damaged dining room of Ivory Coast's presidential palace in central Abidjan on Thursday.

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The newly appointed members of the Republican Forces walk through a dining room damaged the Presidential Palace of C?te d'Ivoire in central Abidjan Thursday.

Rebecca Blackwell/AP members of the Republican Forces newly appointed on foot with a dining room damaged the central Presidential Palace of C?te d'Ivoire in Abidjan Thursday.

Much has been reported on the presidential residence where Ivory Coast defiant leader, beats Laurent Gbagbo declined during the battle for the commercial capital, Abidjan. Much less was heard on the status of the official Presidential Palace across town, the symbol of the authority in the Ivory Coast, where Gbagbo - works and where a veritable Armory was discovered.

Commander of the former Ivorian rebel Cherif Ousmane said soldiers from the North and have never set foot in Abidjan the Presidential Palace in front of them is that they were fighting for.

Boxes of weapons and ammunition line a hallway in the basement level of the presidential palace.

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Boxes of weapons and ammunition line a corridor in the basement of the Presidential Palace.

Rebecca Blackwell PA boxes of weapons and ammunition line a corridor in the basement of the Presidential Palace.

The manicured gardens are always cared, but decorated with fountains and statues in bronze contradict found on the ground. Lawns are littered with of abandoned uniforms, helmets, cartridges, body armor and flip-flops - as if the soldiers left in haste. There is a reservoir in the backyard and a camouflaged armoured vehicle nestled under the canopy trees.

Ousmane accuses the President stripped of the preparation for the war.

"You find all sorts of weapons here: heavy weapons, rockets, mortars, BM-21 missiles - 8 feet long.". Crates and crates of grenades and ammunition, mines. Galore of assault rifles. The Presidential Palace was an Armory, a powder keg, "he says. "And all this is to be used by Gbagbo against its own people, the Ivorian people."

The newly appointed Republican Forces that previous President elected Alassane Ouattara, swept the country at the speed of lightning of this month and reached the doors of the city of Abidjan for the final assault military.

Inside the walls of the Palace

At the Palace, the Windows and giant glass doors are missing, probably hit by weapons fire. Crunches of glass at the feet on the pavement and just inside the entrance of the wing where Gbagbo was hastily sworn in as President after November controversial elections.

In the basement are cases on cases of multiple rocket launchers called Stalin organs. This is what was talking about the United Nations when he said Gbagbo and his forces were using heavy weapons against civilians.

Standing by a stock, a soldier said that he is in shock.

"He was even ready to go to war against its own people," he said, "against us." Only God saved us. ?

The international response

In Abidjan today, Red Cross continues to collect corpses - some charred, some on the side of the road. The International Criminal Court in the Hague, and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, warn that they are studying atrocities and violations of the rights allegedly committed by the security forces of Gbagbo and Ouattara in C?te d'Ivoire.

"I think that the position of the international community is that one who commits atrocities, one who commits crimes against humanity should be brought to book," said the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, Henry Odein Ajumogobia. "It is a lesson for all of us in our global village."

Nigeria is currently the rotating Presidency of the African States of the West (ECOWAS), who fought as a mediator in the conflict in C?te d'Ivoire. And Ajumogobia has been the first diplomatic visit Ouattara by a foreign dignitary since the eviction of Gbagbo Monday. He said that Nigeria fully supports the pursuit of justice.

"It is important that draw us lessons from this experience." We only wish and counsel that the process is fair and transparent to determine the excesses that have taken place, "Ajumogobia told."

The Nigerian Minister says ECOWAS supports peace and reconciliation in Ivory Coast, but there must be no impunity.

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