The extradition of one of the president's foes poses awkward questions for him
ON MARCH 22nd Charles Blé Goudé (pictured), an Ivorian widely known as the "street general", was flown from the Ivory Coast to The Hague, to be charged at the International Criminal Court (ICC), alongside his patron, Laurent Gbagbo, the previous Ivorian president, with four counts of crimes against humanity. Mr Blé Goudé is alleged to have masterminded an ethnic pogrom after Mr Gbagbo's defeat at the polls in 2010. Mr Blé Goudé had been in prison in the Ivory Coast for 14 months at the behest of its current president, Alassane Ouattara, following a year-and-a-half on the run.
In the aftermath of the election, thousands of Ivorians were killed. Many were said by Mr Blé Goudé's and Mr Gbagbo's opponents to have been doused in petrol and set alight by thugs. But Mr Blé Goudé's friends have denounced his extradition as illegal and politically motivated.
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