Security forces and pro-government militias in Ivory...

Security forces and pro-government militias in Ivory Coast killed at least 120 people, including many innocent civilians, in a two-day crackdown on a banned opposition protest in March, a United Nations report said.
The report said the violence was a "carefully planned and executed operation" by security forces and shadowy militias in the main city Abidjan "under the direction and the responsibility of the highest authorities of the state."
"What happened on March 25 and 26 was the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians and the committing of massive human rights violations," the report submitted by a commission of inquiry to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said.
It added many of the killings took place "not in the streets, but in the houses of would-be demonstrators and even innocent civilians targeted by the security forces because of their name, origin or community group."