Abidjan: Ivory Coast’s new President Alassane Ouattara has said all sides in the country’s conflict must face justice. He said he would ask the International Criminal Court to probe massacres in which both his forces and those of his rival Laurent Gbagbo were suspected.
Gbagbo was captured on Monday by Ouattara’s forces after he refused to accept he lost elections in November.
He will now face charges at a “national level and an international level”, Ouattara said.
At a news conference in the main city of Abidjan, Ouattara said Gbagbo had been moved to a secure location.
During the four-month stand-off between the two rivals for the presidency about 1,500 people were killed and a million forced from their homes.
The UN says fighting and looting continue in the country and aid agencies say the situation for civilians is dire, with shortages of food, water and basic services.
The international community, including the UN, recognised Ouattara as the election winner, but Gbagbo said the vote was rigged.
The conflict threatened to plunge the world’s biggest cocoa producer back into civil war, with Ouattara’s supporters controlling the north and Gbagbo’s in control of the south.
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