http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...5E1702,00.html
What the fuck is wrong with these people using rape as a weapon...
White women raped in Ivory Coast
From correspondents in Paris
November 12, 2004
SEVERAL dozen white women were raped in Ivory Coast in riots that have shaken the west African state since late last week, but no foreign nationals were killed, a French military source said today.
The top French soldier in Ivory Coast, General Henri Poncett, said that women had been raped in anti-French violence that erupted there over the last week.
Some French nationals evacuated on Wednesday from Abidjan to Togo spoke of the rape of women by "young patriots" loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo.
A diplomatic source in Abidjan had said he had no knowledge of any French national being killed, although several had been injured, including by blows from machetes.
"This time people were injured and the damage is considerable," the source said, recalling that no French national had been injured during the violence that erupted in January 2003 after the Marcoussis peace accord was signed.
But the military source in Paris later said that the "physical attacks" against women were the only ones committed against expatriates.