Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- The government of Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader said the country's deepening political crisis has «crossed over to a new level of horror and barbarism» after soldiers backing his rival fatally shot six female demonstrators, as AP reported. Thousands of women were protesting sitting president Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to cede power when tanks showed up and soldiers opened fire on Thursday. «Indeed, we anticipated everything short of imagining that one could shoot live rounds at unarmed women, all the more with tanks,» said Patrick Achi, the spokesman for the government of Alassane Ouattara, whom the U.N. said defeated Gbagbo in the Nov. 28 election.
