Contributions from the Côte d’Ivoire participants

In response to the questionnaire on the theme of collective wounds, the team of participants from Côte d’Ivoire sent us the results of the discussions they had within the group, as well as in conversations with civil society representatives and with victims and witnesses of the military-political crises that the country has experienced. The relevant documents are available at the bottom of the page.

A quote from these texts

“These wounds are illustrated by mistrust among the population, psychosis that translates into fear,
malice, injustice, tribalism, nepotism, exile, silence of the victims, frustration and the spirit of revenge.
We are all affected by all these wounds.”

Images that tell the story

People trying to escape the fighting during the September 2002 military attack
Burn marks from melted plastic used to extract confessions, on the bodies of former detainees in Abidjan
A well from which bodies were exhumed
Communities and police during the attack on the Nahibly IDP camp in July 2012.
Members of the Ivorian delegation with victims of the crises during the meeting
Adolphe with a witness of the 2011 post-election crisis, Mr Tibault (right)
Yves Kouadio (right), from ACAT Côte d’Ivoire, and Mr Clément (left), from Caritas Côte d’Ivoire
Olympe Konan, from “La Balle aux Prisonniers” (LABAP), and Patrick Yeo, from the Ivorian Human Rights League (LIDHO)
Views expressed by victims and witnesses of the Ivorian crisesTélécharger
Views expressed by members of the groupTélécharger
Views expressed in conversation with civil society representativesTélécharger