Insight - Search for justice lags post-war boom in Ivory Coast


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  • Monday, 20 Jul 2015

Georges Doue, 51, who lost seven members of his family in the 2011 massacre, stands in a flowered garden in the Carrefour neighbourhood where hundreds of people were buried after a massacre on March 28, 2011, an area predominantly inhabited by Gueres, an ethnic group seen as among former President Laurent Gbagbo's staunchest supporters, in Duekoue June 23, 2015. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

BLOLEQUIN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Four years after the civil war ended in Ivory Coast the economy is booming, but for men like Yaboua Assie, who lost two young daughters in one of the conflict's most notorious massacres, the justice they seek remains as elusive as ever.

The killings took place in a grassy lot behind the government offices in the small town of Blolequin, an event Assie relives almost nightly in his dreams.

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