In 1990 student struggles won a multi-party system.
Four parties formed an organisation called the co-ordination of the democratic left. It aimed to create the conditions for democracy in the Ivory Coast, for example by demanding a national assembly.
The founders were:
§ PSI: Ivorian Socialist Party, Led by Professor Bamba Morifere which secame the PPS Party for Propress and forintom) during ference in the Ivory Coast.
• PIT: Ivorian Workers' Party. Led by Professor Francis Wodie who entered by the 1995 Presidential elections, thus betraying the other opposition parties.
• USD: Union of Social Democrats. Led by Professor Zady Zaourou who, since February 1994, became a minister in the self-proclaimed Presidential Government.
@ FPI: Ivorian Popular Front. Led by Professor Laurent Gbagbo. Ghagbo's party came second, suppos. gaywith aroundssinth ofthevere in se unfair 1990 Presidential elections. Commission of Inquiry could not deny all the crimes committed by soldiers and police under the special order of the head of state. The inquiry ordered sanctions, but the dictator refused saying: "The army is my own weapon, my own knife. I cannot turn my own weapon against myself."
We started huge protest demonstrations to force the government to carry out these sanctions.
The president, unable to punish the military, decided to attack us. Over two weeks most student leaders were kidnapped. On the day of the demonstration the government paid unemployed people and foreigners to provoke a riot.
The government used it to torture the opposition leaders: to imprison them with the student leaders. to rape women in public.
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