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Home > Cote D'Ivoire: UN finds 99 Bodies in Mass Graves After Rebel Clashes

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 - 03:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
168 [3]
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UN human rights experts have uncovered three mass graves packed with at least 99 bodies in the northern town of Korhogo, where heavy clashed between rival rebel factions took place in June. In a statement released by the UN mission in the country (ONUCI) it was reported that 'some of these people were killed by bullets and, according to reliable and consistent witness accounts, others suffocated to death.'

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