UN rights body to send inquiry team to Ivory Coast

[pampango]

Source: Reuters

The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to send an independent commission to investigate killings and other crimes in Ivory Coast which is on the verge of civil war.

The 47-member forum unanimously approved a resolution put by Nigeria on behalf of African countries which condemned atrocities and called for a halt to the violence.

Earlier, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the estimated death toll in Ivory Coast's post-election violence had reached 462. Her office was also investigating allegations that another 200 African nationals -- from Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea and Togo -- were killed near the western town of Guiglo, a spokesman said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/ivorycoast-un-rights-idUSLDE72O1IU20110325

[dipsydoodle]

1. Prep the next no fly zone

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[atreides1]

2. Not going to happen

Nothing of value there for the Western powers to be concerned with...

[sarcasmo]

3. Surprised at this, I didn't think the Ivory Coast had oil.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Have actually

not a lot but some.

The actual difference is that the population is all "brown" so it don't matter if they kill each other.

:sarcasm:

[nalnn]

4. Well

They asked for it.