"More than 13,000 flee Ivory Coast" by Laura Burke | Associated Press, June 22, 2012
ACCRA, Ghana — About 13,000 people have fled their homes in southwestern Ivory Coast following attacks in which unidentified armed men killed at least 22 people this month, including seven UN peacekeepers, a UN official said Thursday.
Now stinking of some sort of intelligence operation, but why?
Residents around the town of Tai are traumatized and in ‘‘constant fear and panic,’’ said Ute Kollies, the head of the UN humanitarian agency in Ivory Coast.
‘‘We have recorded five attacks since the beginning of June, and given the rumors floating around, everyone is fearful of what might happen next,’’ Kollies said.
She said that in some villages, all of the homes have been destroyed.
UN peacekeepers and Ivorian soldiers are patrolling but Kollies said the densely forested Liberia border area needs to be secured further in order to protect the population and provide safe corridors for delivery of aid supplies....
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Ivory Coast Aberration
Maybe not.
