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[email protected] Website: www.earthrightsinstitute.org Saving the Earth and Humanity together ABIDJAN OCTOBER 12 2015 CASE OF COURT REFFERAL N:01 For the attention of Mrs. ANNIE GOEKE, co-founder and co-director of ERI-USA Seeking reparations from the state of the Ivory Coast for its crimes, which include murder, rape, and pillage, perpetrated against ERI between 2008 and 2010 in Katiola, in the north of the Ivory Coast, by Ivorian soldiers under the command and orders of Mr. SORRO Kigbafori Guillaume, along with the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and General Secretary of the Armed Forces of the New Forces (FAFN) I- GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE REFFERAL REPORT Earth Rights Institute (ERI), an international humanitarian organization for the rights of the Earth, humans, and sustainable development, affiliated with the United Nations, has the honor of informing you of the crimes perpetrated against them by Katiola of Niellé, between 2008 and 2010, by the Ivorian military at the orders of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense at the time, SEM. SORO Kigbafori Guillaume and ask for reparations. Between 2008 and 2010, the Ivorian military, directly placed under the authority, command, orders, and control of Katiola à Niellé, systematically pillaged our organizations and our projects, assassinated five of our humanitarian aid workers for their motorcycles and work tools, injuring others, raped our trainees, occupied our headquarters, and took twenty years of our original research while the region where we worked to help the population overcome poverty, drought, and the effect of greenhouse gas emissions, was not in a state of war.