Well it looks like we may have yet another case of genocide in an already world gone mad, Laurent Gbagbo, the president of the Ivory Coast has refused to cease power ever since the country's November 28th election, in which his rival, Alassane Ouattara actually won the election.
Reuters reported earlier today that Gbagbo was going to eventually allow traffic through the military block into the Gulf Hotel where Ouattara is based, after Gbagbo had military forces surrounding it. This shows he's not going out without a fight.
Since the election, Gbagbo has been accused of carrying out the killings of more than 170 people thus far, who are opposed of his power and control over the country, which has struggled to rebuild itself since its civil war back in 2003.
Now, the United Nations has stepped in to try and establish solvency and they insist Ouattara was the real winner to take the helm as the Ivory Coast's next leader. Gbagbo has agreed to open up talks with neighboring countries like Sierra Leone and the African Union who say that he is willing to negotiate peacefully to prevent military intervention from ECOWAS.
Despite this, the situation sounds like it could be escalating into something that looks disturbingly like the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia. The United Nations said that Gbagbo could be held criminally liable for violating human rights, torture, kidnapping and murder.
However, it seems as though that is doing little to deter him out of presidential control. He apparently has the country's high court and military in his pockets (and probably his check book) and for the most part has ignored any interference from the African Union or other countries asking for him to cease power.
It is all just another carnival act concerning a leader who rules over a country by destroying his people.
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