wed, 27 jan 2016, 15:41

ICC to start trial against former president of côte d’ivoire

DEN HAAG – THE HAGUE

The International criminal Court in The Hague starts on Thursday with the trial against ex-president of Ivory coast Laurent Gbagbo. The former head of state, in november 2011 at the ICC was transferred, is on trial for crimes against humanity, such as murder, rape and persecution during the civil war, which in 2010 began.

The violence began when Gbagbo refused to lay herself down at his elections. in 2010. The civil war in the period up to april 2011 to sure 3000 people’s lives have been. Except Gbagbo is also his 44-year-old co-suspect Charles This Goudé. This ex-minister and former youth pastor is also accused of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape.

Both Gbagbo if This Goudé denies the allegations. Gbagbo’s supporters say that he is the victim of a conspiracy between France and the current president of Ivory coast, Alassane Ouattara, who won the election and ascended the throne after a military intervention by the former colonial power. That made an end to the four-month civil war.

Ouattara, who last year was re-elected, his opponents accused the ICC to use the opposition to silence. Gbagbo and This Goudé, also known as “the general of the street”, were transferred to ‘The Hague’ after the ICC arrest warrants against them had been issued.

The ICC also wanted to Gbagbo’s wife to trial, but that is by a court in Ivory coast to twenty years in prison convicted.