FILE Renegade warlord Coulibaly killed in Ivory Coast

(28 Apr 2011)
1. Wide of Ibrahim "IB" Coulibaly walking into building with some of his soldiers
2. Various of Coulibaly before interview
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Ibrahim "IB" Coulibaly, Leader of the Invisible Commandos:
"IB won't create problems for anyone. IB came to solve problems, not create them. IB is a partisan of peace and a partisan of love. He is not warmonger. It's he (referring to himself in third person) who extends his hand to everyone. It's he who wants this country to be unified."
4. Cutaway of interview
5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Ibrahim "IB" Coulibaly, Leader of the Invisible Commandos:
"I wanted to say to you that it's me who has created the Forces Nouvelles. It's true there were problems. I think it is high time to stop the stories and to stop the personal quarrels. The moment has arrived to unite. I've forgiven. I've forgiven everything that has happened. I forgiven everything which could divide us. It is high time to unite, come together to bring peace back to Ivory Coast. It is high time to come together to rebuild this new army, create this united army to allow President (Alassane) Ouattara to lead the country better. That's my message and I ask all Ivorians to forgive. There have been many abuses, many frustrations and many humiliations but it's in peace, unity and forgiveness that we can build a great nation."
6. Wide of end of interview
STORYLINE
State television said renegade warlord Ibrahim "IB" Coulibaly, a two-time coup plotter who began the pro-democracy battle for Abidjan, was killed in fighting on Wednesday night with one-time allies turned enemy.
He died after his top aide said Coulibaly's troops were waiting for UN peacekeepers to disarm them.
A commander for Defence Minister Guillaume Soro said Coulibaly appeared to have killed himself rather than surrender when his troops seized Coulibaly's stronghold in Abidjan's poor neighbourhood of Abobo on Wednesday night.
The senior commander spoke on condition of anonymity and it was not possible to get details late on Wednesday of how exactly Coulibaly, 47, died.
But the senior commander who directed the fighting against Coulibaly said it appeared to be a suicide.
On Monday, Coulibaly's aides accused Soro's camp of attacking their forces. The two men have a years-old feud.
Soro's men did not reach Abidjan until April.
The rivalry between Soro and Coulibaly was the biggest challenge to confront Ouattara's fledgling government since former strongman Laurent Gbagbo was arrested April 11.
Coulibaly had led a successful 1999 coup that installed General Robert Guei, who was assassinated after elections in 2000.
In 2002 Coulibaly helped lead a failed coup against Gbagbo and made no secret of his own presidential aspirations.
Later that year, Coulibaly began the rebellion that divided Ivory Coast between a rebel-held north and government-run south.
In 2004, Soro and Coulibaly waged bloody battles for leadership in the rebels' stronghold in the central city of Bouake.
Soro won and Coulibaly was forced into exile.
Ouattara has little control over the former rebel forces that brought him to power and who will form the new Ivorian army by integrating with Gbagbo's old forces.
The former rebels grouped loosely under Soro, who is also the prime minister, are commanded by five different warlords.
Coulibaly re-emerged in Abidjan in January at the head of the "invisible Commandos" to start the battle against Gbagbo's forces after soldiers fired mortar shells and rockets into Abobo, a neighbourhood that voted en masse for Ouattara.
It is not known how many thousands have been killed and wounded.
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