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What bothers me about this video (and I am not saying it is not true that Ivoire citizens were massacred by the French) is that the camera shows a peaceful crowd, then when the "shooting" starts, all we have is blurred images SUGGESTING that a massacre is occuring. BUT then the response of some after the supposed atrocity is bizarre: people ambling with backpacks, grinning and very casual. Some people are running away, but most are not, and some are just acting like it's a day in the park! We don't SEE French soldiers shooting at citizens, but it is implied by the tape. Does France admit to killing of Ivoire citizens of any number?

massacres or simple murder in the 3rd world do not elicit quite the same response as here...folks are used to it.....even though the IC used to be idyllic relatively speaking.

I saw a Brit security man in Freetown Sierra Leone shoot a local cop in the head in a busy intersection and no one hardly blinked. His body lay there for hours and he was a Copper. This was late 80s about the time Sierra Leone was imploding from civil unrest.

I've seen necklaced bodies in Port Au Prince and Gonaives Haiti and the bodies were left to rot for days as school kids in tartan uniform skipped past the stench.

Things are just different there....although they bleed and die red same as us. That young woman gasping and dying with the sucking chest wound on this vid is quite poignant. I never got used to it...even after nearly 17 years spent all over civil strife torn primitive areas...especially with kids.

The old cliche life is cheap is not without merit.

I think the Frogs got itchy finger here....they sure didn't retreat like they felt they were under threat....all out in the open and whatnot.

Ivory Coast protesters demonstrate in front of the presidential residence in Abidjan, November 9, 2004. At least five people were killed in a fourth day of mob violence in Ivory Coast on Tuesday and protesters accused French troops of opening fire on them. Demonstrators said French troops had shot at them from a hotel in an upmarket district of the country's main city Abidjan, while the French military declined immediate comment. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Ivory Coast protesters carry the body of a demonstrator shot in front of a hotel in Abidjan, November 9, 2004. At least five people were killed in a fourth day of mob violence in Ivory Coast on Tuesday and protesters accused French troops of opening fire on them. Demonstrators said French troops had shot at them from a hotel in an upmarket district of the country's main city Abidjan, while the French military declined immediate comment. Reuters/Luc Gnago

A man looks at a UN vehicle burning in the car park of the hotel Ivoire in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, following an anti-French demonstration.(AFP/Issouf Sanogo)

Pro-government demonstrators with national flags protest in front of the French-commandeered Hotel Ivoire in the Ivory Coast capital Abidjan on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004. South African President Thabo Mbeki flew to Ivory Coast on Tuesday to launch an African effort to rein in chaos amid four days of sudden mob and government confrontations with French troops that have wounded hundreds and left at least 20 dead. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

Pro-government demonstrators protest around a French armoured vehicle in front of the commandeered Hotel Ivoire in the Ivory Coast capital Abidjan on Tuesday Nov.9, 2004. South African President Thabo Mbeki flew to Ivory Coast on Tuesday to launch an African effort to rein in chaos amid four days of sudden mob and government confrontations with French troops that have wounded hundreds and left at least 20 dead. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

An Ivorian government soldier with a rocket-launcher stands guard outside Abidjan's luxury Hotel Ivoire where the Ivory Coast Armed Forces (FANCI) and French and UN military forces were meeting.(AFP/Issouf Sanogo)