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prevent intercommunity violence, which often results in serious human rights violations.
Most human rights violations result less from the State’s complicity than from its
failure to prevent them, especially because of the difficulty of reforming the security
sector and re-establishing the Government’s authority over the country’s entire territory.
Combating impunity must remain a priority in order to break the vicious circle
perpetuated by the repetition of human rights violations in the country since 1999. The
current transitional justice processes, including the work of the Dialogue, Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, must tackle the underlying causes of the crisis and focus on
the victims of human rights violations, respecting their right to receive reparation and not
to be subjected to renewed human rights violations.
The impartiality and independence of transitional judicial and non-judicial justice
mechanisms must be preserved. In this connection, it is vital to prosecute perpetrators of
human rights violations regardless of their political, tribal, regional or religious
affiliations.
The deeply rooted culture of coexistence developed over time by the Ivorian
people as a whole and based on its rich ethnic, cultural and religious diversity must be
strengthened and nourished by respect for human rights and the principles and rules of
democracy.
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