E/CN.4/2005/18/Add.3 page 11 III. ALLEGATIONS 28. In the course of his visit, the Special Rapporteur received reports of violations of the right to life, arbitrary detentions and arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, violations of the freedom of expression and of movement, and attacks on property. By way of illustration, the Special Rapporteur reproduces below selected allegations which relate to his mandate. Violations of the right to life 29. The Special Rapporteur received various allegations of summary executions being carried out by members of the forces of law and order, individual members of militias or armed groups or others with no obvious affiliation, with no reaction on the part of the forces of law and order. Allegations of summary executions by members of the Forces Nouvelles were also transmitted to the Special Rapporteur. In Man, for example, when the town was taken by two rebel groups, the Ivorian Popular Movement of the Great West (MPIGO) and the Movement for Justice and Peace (MJP), in November 2002, a number of gendarmes were reportedly pursued and killed. When the town was retaken by the national army on 1 December, the soldiers reportedly arrested dozens of people, who subsequently disappeared. 30. On 7 October 2002, a young man in Bouaké was allegedly stopped by a group of youths on his way home and burned alive because he belonged to the Dioula ethnic group. 31. In October 2003, gendarmes came to the cemetery in Williamsville after a funeral, looking for some people. They allegedly ordered four northerners who were praying over the grave of a family member to lie down on the ground. They then apparently opened fire, killing two of them. One of the assailants has reportedly been identified as Commander Seka, who is now a presidential aide-de-camp. 32. On 5 May 2003, a girl was allegedly killed in Yamoussoukro after having been beaten and raped by members of the forces of law and order, for carrying a photograph of a rebel around with her. Torture and inhuman or degrading treatment 33. The Special Rapporteur received several allegations of torture and ill-treatment on the part of both loyalist and rebel forces. A young man reported that he had been stopped on the Yamoussoukro-Didiévi Road on 23 October 2002. The gendarmes asked to see his papers and accused him of being an assailant. He was allegedly hit with a Kalashnikov and his collarbone broken. He was then held until 27 October, denied food and water during his detention, and tortured. Violations of the freedom of movement 34. The majority of the allegations received by the Special Rapporteur concern violations of the freedom of movement. Representatives of civil society, members of the Forces Nouvelles and members of the Government have all attested to the proliferation of checkpoints, including in Abidjan. These checkpoints are allegedly the scene of numerous abuses, particularly