On Thursday and Friday, policeraidedthevillageand the nearby forests in search of at least five ethnic Jarai Montagnards suspected of hiding there. They were accused of harbouring the asylum seekers and threatenedwitharrest.
Policedogs could be heard barking in the distance, searching for people in the sprawling woodland. Yesterday, villagers filed a formal complaint against the action with local rights group Adhoc to be forwardedontoboththeMinistryof Interior and the National Assembly.
AsFrancemourned17victims of three days of bloodshed that included Jews and a Muslim police officer, the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority were among those attending the mass rally in addition to numerous world leaders.
Lassina Traore, a yearold French-born Muslim from the Ivory Coast, gently placed17candlesatthefoot ofthemonumentatthePlace de la Republique, heaped with tributes to the dead. The families of those who died in the shootings that shookFrancetoitscorewere at the front of the march, leading royalty and heads of state.
Securitywasbeefedup, withpolicesnipersstationed onrooftopsandplain-clothes officers among the crowd in a city still reeling from the Islamistattackswhichleft12 staff and policemen dead at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and claimed four livesataJewishsupermarket. A policewoman was also killed. The statement also largely ruled out other modes of transmission, such as unprotected sex and intravenous drug use, as well as motherto-child transmission.
