ICC Court Acquitted Ivory Coast Ex-president Gbagbo Of All War Crime Charges - Foreign Affairs

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ICC Court Acquitted Ivory Coast Ex-president Gbagbo Of All War Crime Charges by SirToby(op): 5:20pm On Jan 15, 2019*

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has acquitted Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo.
He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed 2010 election that left 3,000 dead and 500,000 displaced.
Mr Gbagbo was captured in 2011 in a presidential palace bunker by UN and French-backed forces supporting his rival, Alassane Ouattara.
He was the first former head of state to go on trial at the ICC.

What was Mr Gbagbo accused of ?

The violence in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, came after Mr Gbagbo refused to accept that he had lost a disputed election run-off to Mr Ouattara in 2010.
The five months of violence that followed were described as some of the most brutal clashes the country had ever seen.

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