“We Have All Necessary Elements To Put Together a Dialogue Process”

“We have decided in unison that we want all our children to go to school. We have decided that we want to go to our villages and sleep well. We have decided that we want our businesses and particularly our agro- industrial enterprises to function well and to provide employment to our youth. We want the CDC, Pamol and other big firms to continue to work and provide jobs for our children. We have decided that we want an end to unjustified killings and kidnappings for ransom. We have decided that we want to enjoy Christmas this year in peace. We have decided that ten years of mayhem, killings, and psychological trauma that we have gone through in the South West Region is unjustified and should stop. We have decided to follow the prescriptions of the President of the Republic for community dialogue to be organised together with admi­ nistrative, civil society, traditional, religious leaders, economic operators, cocoa dealers dialogue...