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The Congrès Panafricain des Jeunes et des Patriotes (''COJEP''), commonly known as Young Patriots, of Côte d'Ivoire is the name given to a youth movement supportive of the former President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo and his ruling Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) party. Its founder, and current leader, is Charles Blé Goudé. Set up in June 2001, the group has attracted controversy and international condemnation due to its alleged involvement in extra-judicial killings and demonstrations organised by the group which have often turned violent. The organisation is nationalist and opposed to the Islamification of the country, Gbagbo's supporters tend to be Christians from the south, as opposed to the rebel forces from the largely Muslim north, which had been fighting a war with the government from 2002 to 2006. The organisation itself claims that it rejects violence, and that it has been misrepresented in the Western media, especially that of France. ==History== Blé Goudé founded COJEP in June 2001, at the end of his term as the head of another youth movement in Cote D'Ivoire, after it had suffered an ideological split and become deeply politicised, with one section allying itself to a military junta within the country. The new movement he set up was fiercely supportive of Laurent Gbagbo, who had been elected the previous year. On September 26, 2002, within a week of the failed coup d'etat by the Ivorian army, Blé Goudé, who was in Manchester finishing a degree, flew back to Abidjan to mobilise the COJEP along with several other youth movements, merging them into a more militant version of the group called ''Alliance des jeunes patriotes pour le sursaut national'' ("Youth Alliance for National Survival"). This new organisation incorporated: *COJEP - Blé Goudé's original organisation *la Fédération des étudiants et scolaires de Côte d'Ivoire (FESCI) - another student organisation loyal to Gbagbo *The campaign to repatriate Alassane Ouattara, an Ivorian Muslim politician and opponent of Gbagbo who originally came from Burkina Faso. *Thierry Legré's "Movement for the Republican Conscience". In January 2003, they prevented Dominique de Villepin from leaving the presidential palace for three quarters of an hour. In November 2004, the Young Patriots attacked French homes and businesses, forcing thousands of white people to flee, as they were thought to be French. This was fuelled by anger over France's perceived role in the civil war. In addition, France was said to be interfering in the economy and maintaining the country as a client state. Calls for violence against whites and non-Ivorians were broadcast on national radio and TV after the Young Patriots seized control of its offices. The attacks drew international condemnation, and Kofi Annan described the group as a militia. In October 2005, elections which were due to be held in Cote d'Ivoire were cancelled, after Gbagbo used a law which allowed him to stay in power. The UN, already accused of having taken a stance sympathetic to the French as well as the rebels, criticised this, and this led to a series of protests in January of the following year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Congrès Panafricain des Jeunes et des Patriotes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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