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 Devine,

You can believe to everything you read and saw in newspapers or in TV, that
your problem!
As Ivorian I consider your intervention a provocation. I'm asking to the
AAM  commity to take an immediate action toward this kind of behavior!

Louis T.



From: Devine Akabutu [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:31:04 -0800
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Subject: "All Whites Out" Say Ivoreans


All Whites Out so that they can kill themselves? Distressing !

Devine

General News of Thursday, 11 November 2004Foreigners Evacuate Ivory Coast
En Masse ...126 evacuees Land in PEACEFUL Ghana
... Gov't is pushing to kill white people - French Lady
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CP) - France, Canada and other western nations
launched one of the largest evacuations of Africa's post-independence era
Wednesday as angry crowds chanted "all the whites out."
126 evacuees, including 64 Canadians, landed at Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday.
France commandeered commercial airliners and other nations scrambled
military jets to fly out thousands of foreigners after attacks on civilians
and peacekeepers. Violence erupted after government forces renewed attacks
on rebels, ending a more than one-year ceasefire in the country's civil war.
Convoys shuttling foreigners to the airport passed through "very virulent"
crowds of loyalist youths on a route littered with burned vehicles and
abandoned roadblocks of smouldering tires, UN spokesman Phillippe Moreux
said.
"It's a very hostile crowd," said Moreux. "They're chanting slogans and
insults, things like, 'All the whites out,' 'Everybody catch a white.' "
A Canadian-chartered plane carrying 126 evacuees, including 64 Canadians,
landed at Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday, Foreign Affairs spokesman Andre Lemay
said from Ottawa. A second Canadian plane was cancelled for security
reasons.
There are almost 400 Canadian citizens registered in Ivory Coast, along
with about 300 non-Canadian family members, he said late Wednesday.
Lemay said the Canadian Embassy in Abidjan was working to help other
Canadians seeking to leave to find seats on planes chartered by other
countries. Although the embassy is closed, Ambassador Michele Levesque
remains in the building along with essential staff.
The crisis began last weekend when nine French peacekeepers and an American
civilian were killed in a government air attack, prompting the French to
destroy Ivory Coast's tiny air force.
The retaliation sparked violence by loyalist youths, who took to the
streets waving machetes, iron bars and clubs, and attacking white
expatriates.
On Wednesday, foreign embassies sent escorts into the city, rescuing
westerners. Spain, Belgium and Italy sent military cargo planes to aid in
the evacuations. French officials said three jets with space for about 250
people each would run shuttles to Paris and to Dakar, Senegal, likely for
days.  French citizens who darted out to the banks of lagoons, which
surround the capital, were plucked to safety by French soldiers in boats.
As the convoys rounded up foreigners from their homes for evacuation, Ivory
Coast's state TV alternately appealed for calm and for a mass uprising
against the French, the country's former colonial rulers.
By late afternoon, much of Ivory Coast's largest city was quiet - the first
break from violence since Saturday.
French President Jacques Chirac sternly demanded that President Laurent
Gbagbo rein in thousands of his hardline supporters, who brought him to
power in 2000 and are now leading the anti-French street violence.
Ivory Coast's "government is pushing to kill white people - not just the
French, all white people," said Marie Noel Mion, rescued in a wooden boat
at daybreak, and waiting with hundreds of others at Abidjan's airport, some
camped in tents on the floor of the terminal.
"The people here have lost everything - their houses, their companies,
everything," said a Belgian businessman, who was leaving after 23 years and
not coming back. "I see a very dark picture for the future of Ivory Coast."
The mayhem, checked only intermittently by Gbagbo's government, has been
condemned by African leaders and drawn moves towards UN sanctions. It
threatens lasting harm to the economy and stability of Ivory Coast, the
world's top cocoa producer and once West Africa's most peaceful and
prosperous country.
The turmoil since Saturday has claimed at least 27 lives and wounded more
than 900. Presidential spokesman Alain Toussaint only gave a casualty toll
for Ivorian loyalists, saying 37 had died.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, sent in by the African Union, invited
representatives of Ivory Coast's warring sides to peace talks this week.
Ivory Coast has been divided between rebel north and loyalist south since
civil war broke out in 2002. France and the United Nations have more than
10,000 peacekeepers in the country.
At the United Nations, France revised a UN Security Council resolution
Wednesday to give Ivory Coast more time to resurrect a peace process with
northern rebels or face an arms embargo and other sanctions, diplomats
said. The decision to push back the deadline from Dec. 1 to Dec. 10 was
made at the request of the United States.
The U.S. State Department said it supports Mbeki's initiative and called on
parties to the conflict in the Ivory Coast "to seize this opportunity to
restart dialogue and negotiations" to end the strife in the country.
France's cabinet approved a decree requisitioning commercial aircraft to
carry out French citizens in what was shaping up as one of the largest
evacuations since Africa's 1960s independence era.
France expected to fly out 4,000 to 8,000 citizens - potentially evacuating
most of the 14,000 French still left in Ivory Coast since 1999, when a coup
ended four decades of stability.
Evacuees included some UN employees and others among 1,500 expatriates
holed up at UN offices around the city. More than 1,600 others - most of
them French, but also citizens of 42 other countries - had taken refuge in
a French military camp.
As the first convoys left for Abidjan's French-secured airport, state
television broadcast more of what the United Nations has called hate
messages. They included images of some of the seven people reported killed
- one with a head blown off - in a clash Tuesday at a French evacuation
post.
On state TV, Ivory Coast military spokesman Lt.-Col. Jules Yao Yao angrily
denounced France as a "force of occupation." Even for those Ivorians who
have condemned their government's deadly air strike, the forceful French
response has raised uncomfortable memories of the colonial era.
A plane carrying several hundred French fleeing Ivory Coast arrived in
Paris on Wednesday hours after Chirac conferred posthumous honours on the
nine French peacekeepers killed in what he called a "cowardly" air attack.
Those fleeing left possessions behind, carrying only light baggage.
Christophe Larrouilh said he and his wife were forced into a quick decision
to stay or leave.
On Sunday night, "there was a knock on my door. A (French) soldier said
'You have three seconds to go.' It was like in a movie. I left," Larrouilh
said.



Source: CP




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