A/HRC/18/52 baby girl and an eight-year-old girl were reportedly killed and seven others wounded in an attack by gueré militiamen in Daobly/Ponan (120 km south-east of Duekoué) in Tai Department. Among the wounded were three minors, including a girl aged 8 and two boys aged 12. V. Internally displaced persons and refugees 18. Many people who were displaced during the post-electoral crisis remain in IDP camps and are afraid or unable to return because of the security situation in some neighbourhoods of Abidjan and in the Western part of the country. Those still in the camps are facing security threats as well as a number of challenges to meeting their basic needs. Reports also allege that some IDPs are being forced to leave sites while the conditions for return in dignity are not yet in place. 19. According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR), the population of IDPs on sites across five regions of Côte d’Ivoire continues to fluctuate. In Abidjan, the IDP population has reportedly increased by 28 per cent mainly due to evictions, with 5,032 IDPs now living on 17 sites. Five sites in the Bingerville, Mafere and Yopougon neighbourhoods of Abidjan have closed down, resulting in the eviction of 2,657 persons while 1,239 IDPs who remain on seven other sites in Cocody, Aboisso and GrandBassam face imminent eviction. The majority of evicted families come from Abobo and Yopougon. Their continued stay on sites is explained by perceived insecurity in certain neighbourhoods, destruction, looting or occupation of their habitual places of residence. To date, a total number of 242,649 people have returned to their zones of origin in Côte d’Ivoire with more than 155,000 returning during the month of August alone. An estimated 171,362 Ivorian refugees remain in Liberia after fleeing the country during the postelectoral violence. In Ghana, the number of Ivorian asylum-seekers stands at 17,023 and the number of refugees at about 10,000. 20. A joint assessment mission comprised of the protection cluster members, including the Human Rights Division, and the representative of IDPs, conducted in the west (area of Tai) on 4 August, has reported continuing population movements within the zone as they fear possible new attacks by militia and mercenaries still active in the area. VI. Arrest, detention and trial of former leaders 21. During the reporting period, top military commanders of the former regime who are alleged to have directly committed and/or have been involved in the commission of human rights violations during the crisis were arrested and/or indicted by the Military Prosecutor. Notable among them are Generals Dogbo Blé, Vagba Faussignaux and Allah Kassi, respectively, erstwhile Commander of the Republican Guards, Commander of the Navy and Commander of the Lokodjoro Naval Base respectively. On 20 August, General Guiai Bi Poin, the former commanding officer of the Centre des opérations de sécurité (CECOS) was also arrested and detained at the Koumassi commando camp in Abidjan by the National Gendarmerie following the discovery of four alleged mass graves within the premises of the École de gendarmerie. Similarly, reports indicate that two army officials, all drivers of armoured personnel carriers (APCs), who were alleged to have been involved in attacks against women in the Abobo District of Abidjan, on 3 March 2011, have also been arrested. 22. International arrest warrants have been issued for several other important figures of the Gbagbo regime who are currently in hiding, for their alleged involvement in crimes 9

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