| Abstract: | The latest phase of the conflict came to a head after the principal parties disputed the results of the long-postponed presidential election of 28 November 2010. Thereafter armed conflict reignited between the supporters of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and his challenger Alassane Ouattara. Within days of Gbagbo claiming an election victory, ECOWAS and UN Secretary General concluded that Ouattara had in fact prevailed, yet Gbagbo and his supporters refused to step aside. As fighters from both sides began to commit atrocities. Consequently, On 30 March the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1975. This recognized Ouattara as president, condemned Gbagbo’s refusal to negotiate a resolution, and authorized UNOCI to ‘use all necessary means’ to protect civilians, Including by ‘preventing the use of heavy weapons against the civilian and also to maintain peace and security.
The research conduct on the researchers would us his own memoir and visit post-conflict scar and trauma that were recorded while the conflict was taking place in Côte d’Ivoire; disputes about citizenship and ethnicity resurfaced; both sides used violence and intimidation, and dozens were killed in pre-election violence. Using this Gbagbo imposed a curfew during the election. When Ouattara supporters in Abidjan took to the streets to oppose the move, security forces opened fire, killing five people and injuring many others. In the meantime, the Constitutional Council declared that there had been massive vote-rigging in the north and cancelled 660,000 votes for Ouattara, thereby handing the election to Gbagbo. On 16 December security forces fired on demonstrators, leaving at least eleven civilians dead. There were two main dynamics of post-election violence: urban repressive violence directed against demonstrators, northern Muslims and West African nationals by Gbagbo’s forces; and rural violence between indigenous and ethnic minority groups in the country’s west, which followed a spiral pattern of reprisals. Upon escalation of the conflict and rising civilian casualties, UNOCI and the French troops highly made joint act against pro Gbagbo forces repeatedly in fever of Ouattara. So its act made by both forces raised a clear question of impartial peacekeeping operation take placed in in Côte d’Ivoire. Therefore, this case study paper discussed UN peacekeeping impartiality in operational facts of the Côte dIvoire. |
