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UN Human Rights Staff Discover Mass Graves in Ivorian City

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–9 May 2011.  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 Côte d’Ivoire’s biggest city, Abidjan.

A team from the UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) uncovered the graves during a visit to the Yopougon neighbourhood, the Office for the High Commissioner for Human…

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