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Now, that is really stooping low!

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 25 December 2005
Now, that is really stooping low! By Loucoumane Coulibaly Dec 20, 2005 ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Armed men dug up and tried to steal the corpse of the mother of one of war-torn Ivory Coast's opposition party leaders Monday but were stopped when guards intervened, the party said. Hadja Nabintou Cisse, mother of the leader of the opposition Rally of Republicans party (RDR) and former prime minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara, was buried in the cemetery in Williamsville, a suburb of Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan, on December 8. Her son, a hated figure among many supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo who accuse him of starting the 2002 civil war that left the country divided in two, had returned from exile in Paris for the funeral. RDR spokesman Cisse Bacongo said around 10 armed men dressed in security forces uniforms exhumed the body from the grave early Monday and carried it to the cemetery entrance before security guards raised the alarm and local youths gave chase. The men fled in a four-wheel drive jeep without license plates, leaving the undamaged body of the Muslim woman behind. It was later reburied by several Imams, Bacongo said. He added the RDR did not know who was behind the attack on the grave but that Ouattara did not want to politicize the issue. "It is an ignominious act and we must condemn it," Bacongo told Reuters. The country's new prime minister, economist Charles Konan Banny, made a brief stop at the cemetery to pay his respects at the grave Monday, where several hundred RDR supporters had gathered, some helping to tidy the tomb.

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