Charles ble goude biography samples
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Nicoletta Fagiolo (Independent Researcher)
Photo: A non-violent and unarmed sit-in to block the security forces from breaking up an Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) Congress, 30 April 2015, Mama, Côte d’Ivoire.
“The Igbo people say,
If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.
The masquerade is moving through this big arena.
Dancing.
If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace.
So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world’s stories should be told;
from many different perspectives.”
Chinua Achebe
“The History of my country is too recent Madame President, and those who try to falsify it by twisting its neck are engaged in an exercise which is unlikely to succeed. Madame President, as I do not want to be the shame of my generation and I refuse to be thrown into the dustbin of History, I would like to bring some freshness to the collective memory that those I call fact smugglers are trying to erase.”
With these words in October 2014, Ivorian youth leader Charles Blé Goudé, known since 2002 as ‘the street General’, for his ability to mobilize large numbers of people onto the streets for huge non-violent protest marches, addressed the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) pre-trial hearing
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After a two-month recess, the Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé trial resumed Monday morning at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Facing a room filled by supporters of the former Ivorian President, witness Salif Ouedraogo was questioned at length by the defense.
The Gbagbo and Blé Goudé trial resumed on Monday, February 6, after a two month suspension. The long pause was due to “a budget problem,” Presiding Judge Cuno Tarfusser clarified. From the outset, he raised the issue of delays in this long-running case, which opened on January 28, 2016. He announced a series of measures to optimize speaking time in the courtroom and make the trial speedier.
Fewer witnesses and absence of Blé Goudé due to health reasons
The number of witnesses to come has been reduced (16 were removed from the list), and their mode of appearance has been reviewed to speed up the process. Questions by the defense must now concern the charges directly and remain factual. Finally, witnesses are often asked to confirm their statements. An amendment could be adopted to avoid this “unnecessary and time-consuming” step and come directly to the questions.
This first hearing of the year 2017 started off in the presence of Laurent Gbagbo but without Charles Blé Goudé. His