ABIDJAN, C?te d'Ivoire - five generals promised their loyalty President Alassane Ouattara Tuesday after the capture of leader of the strong man of the country after a four-month impasse, as the French and Ivorian forces worked to eliminate the last pockets of resistance.
Ouattara Patrick Achi spokesman confirmed that the generals who had fought with Laurent Gbagbo right up until his capture jure allegiance before Ouattara one by one, to the hotel of the golf course, where he implemented his presidency after having Gbagbo refused to recognize lost the November presidential elections.
DOH Ouattara, a member of the team of hotel security, said that Gbagbo, his wife and his entourage were in a suite of y. He said lower-level officials traveling with Gbagbo had been sealed within the bar of the luxury hotel.
Spokesperson of Assistant to the United Nations Farhan Haq, said that "contrary to previous information, Laurent Gbagbo remains the hotel of the golf course in Abidjan". He provided no further explanation. Earlier Tuesday, Haq had said that Gbagbo was not to the hotel of the Golf plus and a place not to be disclosed outside Abidjan. It was not clear steps that led to the confusion.
More than 1 million civilians have fled their homes and untold numbers were killed in the struggle for power in addition to four months between the two rivals. The standoff threatened to re-ignite a civil war in world cocoa producer, once divided into two by violence almost a decade earlier.
Veterans armed feral still in the streets of Abidjan, even after that Gbagbo was arrested by the forces of choirs Ouattara. Residents, said that most of the fighting had stopped Tuesday, although sporadic shooting continued and left people curled in their homes.
During this time, veterans pro-Ouattara siroté French champagne on occasion, while the other was proudly wearing a short black wig, that said, belonged to by Gbagbo's wife, Simone.
In the South of the country, the celebrations of the arrest of Gbagbo continued Tuesday in the export of cocoa port of San Pedro. People blocked the road for double-lane as they sang, danced and sang, "Gbagbo is a thief."
Women created a new dance with branches of trees and brooms and sings: "we have swept Gbagbo." We are ready to welcome A.D.O., our President, "referring to Ouattara by his initials."
During this time, an ally of Gbagbo high accused pro-Ouattara forces of looting the homes of political rivals.
"I get distress calls from everywhere in the city of members of the party who fear for their lives,", said the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Gbagbo, Alcide Djédjé. "Myself, I was forced to flee my home at looters in uniform." While the looting was going on, I managed to hide from neighbours until United Nations peacekeepers United came to me. ?
Gbagbo's security forces were charged with the use of mortars and machine guns to mow opponents despite the impasse. Gbagbo could be forced to answer for crimes of his soldiers, but an international test threat feed divisions which Ouattara will now have to heal as President.
Ouattara cut short speculation that Gbagbo would be delivered to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, asking an Ivorian investigation in the former President, his wife and their entourage. Ouattara has also called on his supporters to refrain from violent reprisals and stated that his intention to establish a truth and reconciliation commission.
"All measures have been taken to ensure the physical integrity of Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, his wife and all those arrested," he said. "They will receive a dignified treatment and their rights will be respected."
Foreign Affairs French Minister Alain Juppe said on radio France-Info that France "will certainly not be (Gbagbo) in." Let's not complicate things. "Gbagbo had then spent years abroad in France before the arrival to power as President.
The former colonizer also said Tuesday that it scale back its military force in C?te d'Ivoire and give euro400 million ($580 million) aid to restore public services and to stimulate the economy of the country.
In Geneva, spokesman for the United Nations human rights office Ravina Shamdasani said that the Office had learned that an undetermined number of forces of Gbagbo had been arrested.
"It's not clear where they were taken and how they are treated," she said. "Our staff of the droits de l'homme in Abidjan is to research in this and monitoring it.". International standards of fair trial include the need to prosecute as soon as possible after the arrest. ?
Gbagbo, who reigned on the former French colony since a decade, was fired from his residence fire by Ouattara Monday after fighting troops earlier in the day. Pro-Ouattara forces had received the support of French tanks and helicopters.
Gbagbo's dramatic arrest came after days of fierce fighting in which French and United Nations helicopters fired rockets on deposits of weapons around the city and targets in the presidential compound. Final assault of the Ouattara begins just after the French air strikes ceased to 3 hours of the morning Monday. A simultaneous French armoured advance guaranteed large parts of the city, and pro-Ouattara troops entered the presidential compound just after noon.
Ivory Coast has been divided into a North under rebel control and a Loyalist South in a civil war in 2002-2003 and was officially reunited in 2007 peace agreement. Long delayed presidential election was intended to bring together the nation, but instead unleashed months of violence.
Gbagbo had already dragged his five-year term when he called the election of the fall and won 46% of the runoff vote. When the country's electoral commission and international observers have declared December 2 that he lost the election, he refused to resign.
Professor of ancient history challenged almost universal international pressure to deliver power to Ouattara. Both put in place parallel administrations which vied for control of the one-time West African economic powerhouse.
Ouattara has drawn its support of the United Nations and world powers. Gbagbo has maintained its grip on the military and security of the country which has carried out a campaign of terror, kidnapping, killing and raping opponents.
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Writers press associated with Rukmini Callimachi in Indianapolis. Michelle Faul in San Pedro, Ivory Coast. Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations. Frank Jordans in Geneva; Angela Charlton in Paris. and photographer Rebecca Blackwell in Abidjan has contributed to this report.
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