00:00The recent wave of arrest in Ivory Coast is causing jitters in some
00:06neighborhoods of the capital, Abidjan. In this Abidjan block house neighborhood
00:11where hundreds of protesters were arrested and several wounded during
00:15protests earlier this month, victims are still shaken by the harrowing experience.
00:20They took me, they started to beat me, they put me in their car, they said it's us who throw
00:29stones. It's us who do bad things. It's us. What do we do? I didn't do anything. I'm
00:36from the village. A young man from the village, from block house. In a barbershop
00:41in the neighborhood, Pierre Kwame said the entire neighborhood was affected by
00:45octobus, violence, with the tear gas entering several homes and police beating
00:50down his relatives' doors in search of protesters. Given the situation in the
00:54country, things haven't been moving too much. Things have become a bit slow and
00:58when things get slow, everything gets expensive again. So we aren't doing too
01:03well. But God is there for everyone. So we go home with the little we earn.
01:08Elections in Ivory Coast have often been fraught with the tension and violence, but
01:13despite octobus protests, this year has been relatively calm.
01:17Participating in elections that end with violence and deaths is not the democracy that the population
01:24wants. And so, increasingly, there is a form of disaffection. And we've seen this, for
01:29example, in the registration of voter registration cards. To date, the rates are very low. And
01:35so, ultimately, we are going to find ourselves with an election that, if it takes place peacefully,
01:40will have the turnout rate as its main issue. I have recourse so intense violence, following
01:47the 2010 election, when Loro Bakbo refused to concede defeat. About 3,000 people were killed
01:52in the unrest.
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