No ivory on the coast

President Laurent Gbagbao.
Immediately after he seized power Ouattara pledged to reunite the country and promised war-weary Ivorians a better life.
“The time has come to renew the founding values of our beautiful Ivory Coast, and to reunite Ivorians,” he said at his inauguration ceremony attended by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, former president Nicolas Sarkozy of erstwhile colonial power France and African leaders. Let us celebrate peace, without which there can be no development.”
But, “the ADO solutions” he promised to the Ivorians during his campaign seem to have vanished. 
The majority of  Ivorians are scavenging for food, the security situation is chaotic as kidnappings, rape, targeted killings and the arbitrary imprisonment are now a daily occurrence. National healing is being complicated because the process is too selective. Gbagbo was taken to the International Criminal Court at The Hague charged with crimes against humanity.
But the reality is that Ouattara’s forces committed the same crimes during their invasion of Abidjan. More than 3 000 were killed by French, UN and Ouattara’s troops in April 2011. 
Global rights group Human Rights Watch says forces loyal to Ouattara, who were led by French troops, killed hundreds of civilians, raped more than 20 alleged supporters of Gbagbo, and burned villages in the far western region. In one particularly horrific incident, hundreds of ethnic Guéré civilians perceived as supporting Gbagbo were massacred. 
The families of the dead have no idea of where their loved ones have been buried and the new authorities refuse to reveal the places or what happened to the remains of these unfortunates.  
Ouattara’s forces are accused of killing and torturing anyone suspected to be a supporter of the FPI, Gbagbo’s political party. The new administration is accused of cracking down on former Gbagbo loyalists scattered all over Africa.
Gbagbo’s former Defence Minister Lida Kouassi Moïse was caught and sent back from Togo few weeks ago and no lawyer has access to him. He was tortured and shown on the national television before his imprisonment.
The former first Lady Simone Ehivet Gbagbo’s health is reportedly critical.  She has no access to even  the most minimal of healthcare. 
There are more than 2 000 FPI members and simple supporters in prison without any charges against them.
There are reports that some of the FPI supporters are being sent to prisons in Burkina Faso and Mali.
Hamed Bakayoko, one of Ouattara’s right hands, recently threatened the villagers of Dabou with imprisonment on the grounds that they are hiding support for the FPI. What’s worsening the situation is that religion is also being used as basis for harassment.
It is generally perceived that pro-Gbagbo Ivorians are Christians while the Moslems are regarded as Ouattara’s supporters. Reports say if you are a Christian, you are more likely to be arrested and sent to prison without access to a lawyer. 
This chaotic situation is talked about in the media but the world deciders (the international community) have largely remained mum. 
There are at least two million Ivorians in the neighbouring countries because of Ouattara’s heavy-handedness and the West’s ostrich type policies.
The western part of the Ivory Coast (the Wê zone) is going through hell.
Tomorrow the UN and other Human Rights Organisations will come to say “sorry” to the Ivorians like in the case of Rwanda where Kofi Annan, then a special envoy for the UN secretary-general, failed the people of Rwanda.