Guiglo – The young man in civilian clothes didn’t have the right answers for troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara and they suspected he was a fighter backing his rival for the presidency. So one of the soldiers kicked the man in the teeth. Fifteen minutes later, an Associated Press reporter saw his body, the chest torn open by bullets, dumped outside this western town. Reprisal killings erupted as Ouattara’s fighters made a lightning assault to force his rival Laurent Gbagbo from power. And although Gbagbo was captured on Monday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, suspected Gbagbo supporters are still being rounded up in cities and villages, especially in western Ivory Coast….
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