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Amnesty Reports on Ivory Coast Abuses

   Selah Hennessy | London  February 22, 2011
   Adama  Ouattara,  15,  sits  with  his  mother Eugenie Ouattara in the
   living  room  of  their  home,  from  where  father and husband Adimou
   Ouattara was abducted on December 13 2010, in Abidjan

Photo: AP

   Adama  Ouattara,  15,  sits  with  his  mother Eugenie Ouattara in the
   living  room  of  their  home,  from  where  father and husband Adimou
   Ouattara  was  abducted  on December 13 2010, in the Abobo district of
   Abidjan, Ivory Coast

   Human  rights  abuses  have  been  committed  by  forces  loyal to the
   incumbent  leader of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo and by forces loyal to
   his  rival  Alassane  Ouattara, an Amnesty International investigation
   reported Tuesday.
   Gaetan  Mootoo  is  one  of  the Amnesty researchers who went to Ivory
   Coast  to  investigate  human rights abuses there. The team stayed for