Ivory Coast leader captured

After months of refusing to step down and thousands of people left dead, forces loyal to Ivory Coast president-elect, Alassane Ouattara, besieged a bunker where Laurent Gbagbo was in hiding and arrested him.

This marks an end to 10 years of rule by the Ivorian dictator and nearly five months of Ouattara trying to run the country since winning the election in November. Up until now, the country had been on the brink of facing, yet another civil war.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling this arrest as an indicator to other dictators who refuse to step down from power, will face serious consequences from the international community.

Because Gbagbo used military and security forces on his own people, there is considerable possibility that he shall likely be tried in the International Criminal Court.

Meanwhile, I'm sure the rest of the dictators in Africa and abroad are shaking in their boots and afraid of an upcoming unrest and overthrow of their governments. The events in the Middle East obviously show the Muslim Brotherhood's goal to start a Caliphate and the real possibility of something similar spreading throughout Africa should be in question.

Ivory Coast violence escalates

Remember the Ivory Coast? Maybe you don't, as it has been largely overlooked in the news media ever since the Middle East unrest began in December. I had initially wrote about the Ivory Coast several months ago when its President Laurent Gbagbo refused to cease power after an official election had demonstrated that his rival, Alassane Ouattara, was to become the country's new president.

Since then, Gbagbo has refused to leave quietly. He ordered all United Nations peacemakers to leave the country and refused to listened to recommendations by the African Union and the European Union has imposed sanctions on the Gbagbo government.

But now, the Ivory Coast has broken out into yet another civil war. It is no surprise, the country has experienced these problems for years, and since Gbagbo doesn't want to give up power as President, this has led the opposition lead by Ouattara, to take certain measures against the government.

Sound familiar to what is going on in Libya?

Troops loyal to Ouattara have killed more than 1,000 civilians, many of them beheaded with machetes. Yet he is asking the support of the United Nations to toughen up on 'peace making' to remove Gbagbo from power.

And there seems to be yet again, more breathtaking ignorance from President Obama. Here you have a man who refused to address the genocide in Libya for the better part of a week before the UN added sanctions and a 'No Fly Zone', and yet nearly the same genocide is going on the Ivory Coast... yet President Obama is supporting the Muslim winner Ouattara and his loyal military slaughtering more than 1,000 people.

I'm curious to know if President Obama is going to intervene in the Ivory Coast as well?

Ivory Coast president Gbagbo refuses to cease power

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.