Videos from around that time on an affiliated Vimeo account indicate they are based in Rochester, New York. An affiliated Facebook account also posts links to music by Jamaican DJs. It gives no further clues as to the origins of the video and did not post a link to it on March 3, 2011. Videos of a Senegalese soap opera were also posted to the YouTube account. Is the video authentic? The evidence above confirms the location and establishes the date of the video as highly likely to be March 3. However, to the central point: Does the video show women protesters being shot dead by the FDS on that day? Claims have been made27 that the killing is staged and bodies were placed on the street after the security forces drive past. These serious questions warrant investigation. In this statement28, Gbagbo’s defense minister, Alain Dogou, referred to the emergence of this amateur video on March 4. He said a woman was instructed to “lay down, lay down,” (and we do hear this said in the video). Dogou said it is “difficult to say” that the video is from the location reported by journalists. (Of course, we have confirmed the location.) He also said international journalists were not covering the protest because they were attending a news conference by UNOCI, or another event related to the Council of Ministers. Finally, he acknowledged that a Women’s March did take place in Abobo on this date. Serious questions that arise: • Why did the camera point away from the wounded for so long as the convoy entered the roundabout? • Would all the victims be shot within meters of one another? • Would they all fall face down as they have in the video? • Their faces are quickly obscured by garments - why is this? • A bloodied woman is told to “lay down, lay down” in the video, as described by Defense Minister Dogou. Why is this? Is this out of concern for her poor condition, or to stage an injury? • The “massacre” creates a frenzy of emotion in the video; is this real? Or were other protesters duped by or complicit in a staged “massacre”? Several witnesses give convincing accounts that injuries did result from the reported massacre. A doctor from South Abobo Hospital is quoted on page 63/64 in this Human Rights Watch report29. The doctor reported seeing victims from the shooting: 65