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"We have voted against this joint resolution, which adopts a hypocritical and paternalistic attitude towards this country, whose disastrous situation and poverty are basically due to decades of exploitation and plundering, and of domination that was originally colonial and is still imperialist in nature.
We have no sympathy with the mutinies by the Ivorian army, which was formed and to a certain extent moulded by French soldiers and which, since its inception, has had no other purpose for existing but to oppress the poor majority of the Ivorian population whilst submitting it to extortion and racketeering along the way. It must be said, however, that the government army is no better. Portraying Laurent Gbagbo as a democratically elected president is a con-trick when it is a matter of public knowledge that the elections were fixed and that one of the candidates was prevented from standing for reasons of ethnic prejudice. And this government, like its predecessors, has been deliberately creating a climate of xenophobia and ethnic prejudice, which is making life unbearable for millions of migrant workers and farmers from neighbouring countries and for those originating from the North.
Asking this government and this army to ‘guarantee the safety of the civilian population’, is like asking the wolf to look after the sheep!"@en1
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