Ivory Coast's opposition on Tuesday called on the United Nations to set up a special court to try those responsible for a violent crackdown on an anti-government rally in March, in which at least 120 civilians were killed, according to a UN report.
"To end this cycle of murderous violence and to close the book on the drama crippling our country, it is time to end the impunity gripping Ivory Coast... and ask the UN to create a special international court to judge those Ivorians with genocidal intentions," the seven-party opposition coalition said in a statement.
"Only then can we re-engage in real democratisation as we move towards credible, free and open elections in 2005."
The UN report, the result of two weeks of interviews and investigations into the worst violence to hit the main Ivory Coast city Abidjan in months, was leaked at the beginning of last week by Radio France International, provoking indignation from the government of President Laurent Gbagbo.
According to the report, which was received late last week by authorities here, at least 120 people were killed and 274 wounded in the crackdown on the March 25 opposition rally and the days following it.