A/HRC/17/49 elderly. The subsequent confrontations between FRCI and pro-Gbagbo forces led to mass killings and destruction of property. 22. In April 2011, a UNOCI investigative mission was deployed to the west for more than a month and conducted an exhaustive investigation in the regions of Moyen Cavally and Dix-huit Montagnes. The team was able to establish that, from 1 December 2010 to 24 April 2011, grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law occurred in the west of Côte d’Ivoire. The violations – which include summary executions, enforced disappearances, rape, torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, arbitrary arrests and detentions, arson, pillaging and looting – were committed in the Moyen Cavally and Dixhuit Montagnes regions by both pro-Gbagbo (FDS elements, Young Patriots, Liberian mercenaries and Guéré vigilante groups) and pro-Ouattara forces (FRCI elements and dozos (traditional hunters)). 23. The mission found that at least 1,012 people, including 103 women and 42 children, were killed in the two regions and 46 rape cases, including pregnant women and two minors, were documented in connection with the crisis, recurrent intercommunity clashes and violent confrontations between FDS elements aided by militiamen and mercenaries and FRCI and Dozo combatants. Of the 1,012, 944 were killed in the Moyen Cavally region and 68 in the Dix-huit Montagnes region. It should be noted that 505 were killed in Duékoué alone. Of the total number of deaths, 341 were Gueré, 159 from Burkina Faso, 100 Malinké, 68 Malian, 30 Baoulé, 32 Yacouba, 6 Guinean, 5 Beninese, 3 Liberian, 1 Senegalese and 1 Ghanaian. At least another 586 persons were wounded by bullets or machetes and received medical assistance from the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organization and Médecins sans Frontières Belgium. Large-scale looting, pillaging and arson were also observed in both regions. Hospitals, clinics and granaries were looted in many localities and villages. 24. The mission also concluded that many people died from hunger, malnutrition and illness or by drowning while crossing the Liberian border in an attempt to seek refuge in a safe area. The fighting and subsequent looting and burning of property resulted in a grave humanitarian crisis. There is, as a result, massive internal and cross-border displacement of the population. Living conditions in IDP camps, notably at the Catholic Mission in Duékoué, where at least 27,500 people sought refuge, remain deplorable. During the reporting period, at least 40 people died at the Catholic mission owing to poor sanitary and hygienic conditions. V. Human rights violations in Grand Lahou, Dabou and Irobo 25. There have been reports of human rights violations, including extrajudicial and summary executions and destruction of properties, committed by more than 200 retreating militiamen and Liberian mercenaries in Dabou, Irobo and Grand-Lahou, cities along the coastline west of Abidjan. On 4 May, at least 55 people were killed by militias and Liberian mercenaries heading towards the border with Liberia after being defeated in Yopougon, on 3 May, by the FRCI. Witnesses reported that the dead were mostly civilians and a number of FRCI elements as well as Colonel Ahouma Brouha Nathanaël, whose convoy was ambushed by the militias and mercenaries at Grand Lahou. There were also several accounts of destruction of properties, including houses and shops belonging to persons perceived to be Ouattara supporters. 26. The presence of militiamen and mercenaries in remote areas or in neighbouring Liberia continues to threaten peace and stability in the country and to jeopardize any attempts towards sustained social cohesion and peaceful cohabitation between communities. On 9 May, a fact-finding mission was conducted in Dabou, Irobo and Grand- 9