Deportations in Ghana since 2011, pro-Gbagbo refugees fearful over Côte d’Ivoire disaster

Following the autumn of President Laurent Gbagbo, 11,000 Ivorians fled the post-election disaster to hunt refuge in Ghana. For these early refugees, the political disaster that the Ivory Coast is experiencing at present is painfully paying homage to that of 2011.

From our Accra correspondent,

Justin Koné Katinan was the funds minister in Laurent Gbagbo’s authorities. When the regime fell in 2011, he needed to search refuge in Ghana. He’s now very involved in regards to the political state of affairs in Côte d’Ivoire, which he considers “catastrophic” the day afterControversial election of Alassane Ouattara for a 3rd time period.

“I’ve been in exile since April 13, 2011. My very own son died, I couldn’t go and bury him in Abidjan. It is a stain that is still in my coronary heart. And I am not the one one, many individuals are in the identical state of affairs as me. Within the title of what? Of our political opinions? That isn’t acceptable. “

“We went via it, however it didn’t carry peace to the Ivory Coast”

“The Ivorian individuals are fearful and the refugees much more so,” stated the previous minister. The state of affairs continues to deteriorate, and I am unsure it’ll finish instantly.arrests, convictions, trials[qui vont changer les choses]… We now have lived it, us. I’ve been via a number of years of trials, together with President Laurent Gbagbo, however it has not introduced peace to the Ivory Coast. “

Greater than 8,000 Ivorian residents have left the nation in latest days to flee after violence after the election. A determine that worries Justin Koné Katinan. “The land borders are closed, however individuals are content material via the lagoons … They’ve to go away the nation to avoid wasting their lives. It is an enormous disgrace for the Ivory Coast. And that is Alassane Ouattara. ”

“We’d have preferred to be these final refugees”

A priority shared by Damana Adia Pickass, Vice President for Coordination of Entrance Populaire Ivory Coast (FPI) in exile, additionally a refugee in Ghana. “We’re in our tenth 12 months of exile. You cannot inform anybody about exile. Exile, you cannot want it on anybody. That’s the reason after we study that the Ivorian refugee camps in Ghana are beginning to refill once more, that individuals are beginning to flee the Ivory Coast once more, we’re bruised in our souls. We’d have preferred to be these final refugees. ”

In any case, this loyal Laurent Gbagbo needs to consider within the Ivory Coast’s resilience. “If we didn’t disappear in 2002, if we didn’t disappear in 2011, we won’t disappear in 2020. We reside in an especially harmful, extraordinarily violent, extraordinarily critical battle. However Côte d’Ivoire has stable sources. We’ll get again on our toes. ”

“Exile just isn’t good”

Removed from the capital, the brand new refugees in November be part of the refugee ranks in 2011, most of whom nonetheless reside within the three camps Ampain, Fetentaa and Egyeikrom, amongst them Dali Dassé, a former pro-activist. -Gbagbo lived for nearly ten years within the Ivorian refugee camp Egyeikrom, within the southwest of the nation. “Being a refugee,” he says, “just isn’t a life. Exile just isn’t good. You lose all of your rights. ”

He too thinks the state of affairs on Côte d’Ivoire is “dramatic” and is fearful in regards to the new inflow of Ivorian refugees to Ghana. Particularly since, in accordance with the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a few of these new arrivals are former exiles who had lately been repatriated to Côte d’Ivoire and had been compelled to flee once more. .

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