UN Human Rights Staff Discover Mass Graves in Ivorian City

by Gary Kopycinski on May 9, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–9 May 2011. Â United Nations human rights workers have found the bodies of nearly 70 people, apparently the victims of a militia backing the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, in a series of graves in a suburb of CÃ´te dâIvoireâs biggest city, Abidjan.