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Ivory Coast: Who are the rebels? Rebel soldiers with a pile of
weapons in Ivory Coast There are now at least three groups of
rebels The BBC's Paul Welsh  Perhaps the only thing now clear
about Ivory Coast's war is that it is confused.  Until now, what
began here on 19 September has been called a mutiny, an uprising
or a failed coup; it is taking on all the characteristics of a
classic West African fight.  We took up arms because they killed
Robert Guei - I am fighting to avenge the general  Felix Doh,
MPIGO There are chilling similarities with the beginnings of the
wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone when new rebel groups sprang
from the bush with alarming suddenness and regularity.  Fighters
from both those other West African wars are now fighting with
the newer rebel movements in the west of Ivory Coast.  Three
rebel groups ha