At least seven people were killed in an attack on a UN-protected displaced persons camp in western Ivory Coast by angry yutes, who torched the site despite the presence of the unarmed targets, sources said Friday.The United Nations condemned the attack, in which it said seven people were killed and 13 wounded, promising to leave Earlier reports spoke of nine dead at the camp.
The UN secretary general's special representative in the country, Bert Koenders, deplored "this criminal act, a flagrant violation of international humanitarian rights". However, he did not explain why the contingent of UN blue berets charged with protecting the camp had not been able to prevent the killings.
They're pussies?
Send in the mighty Uruguayans!
The deaths came after four people were killed in an attack late Thursday in the Kokoma district of Duekoue, inhabited mostly by ethnic Malinke.
Local sources said youths from Kokoma had later torched the displaced persons' camp at Niambly on the outskirts of town, populated mainly by Guere people, in an apparent revenge attack.