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ON THE BANKS OF THE CAVALLY RIVER, Ivory Coast — ON THE BANKS OF THE CAVALLY RIVER, Ivory Coast (AP) — The inauguration of Ivory Coast's new president played out before a crowd of tens of thousands. Women wore dresses printed with his portrait. World leaders flew in for the day in a show of international support.

The massacre by the president's men started the day after, at dinnertime.

The soldiers burst into a clearing on the banks of the river here, opening fire with a machine gun mounted on a wheelbarrow. The dozens of families that had sought refuge in this distant spot dropped their plates of food and kicked over pots as they ran.

By the time the soldiers were finished, it was morning and as many as 47 people were dead. The lucky ones drowned in the river.

President Alassane Ouattara's inauguration after a violent, four-month-long standoff with the country's former ruler was supposed to mark the turning of a page in this deeply fractured nation. It represented the triumph of democracy, for Ouattara had won Ivory Coast's first free and fair election in a decade, only to be barred from office by the outgoing president who didn't want to cede power.

Ouattara was only able to remove ex-president Laurent Gbagbo after he enlisted the help of a rebel army which swept across this nation on Africa's western coast, seizing control of every town in its path. The question now is whether Ouattara is able to control the men who control his country, and without whom he wouldn't have been able to take office.

Ouattara has pledged to investigate the killings of thousands of people during the war on both sides. Even after the war, however, Ouattara's forces have killed at least 500 people, according to human rights groups. And he seems powerless to stop them, or even acknowledge what they are doing.

"You make all these deals with the devil — and then what? In so many ways it's now out of Ouattara's hands," said Yale anthropologist Mike McGovern, author of a book on Ivory Coast's political crisis. "He needs to go after these guys. But if he does the right thing, he could pay with his life."

The story of the massacre, reported here for the first time, gives a window into the growing disconnect between Ouattara's promises and the reality on the ground. It also shows how far this French-speaking nation of 21 million people has fallen from its days of prosperity, when it boasted skyscrapers, multiplexes, jet ski competitions and the only ice rink in sub-Saharan Africa.

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