Charles Ble Goude, a militant youth leader in the ousted Ivory Coast regime, is ready to face the International Criminal Court and plead his innocence, he has told AFP.
"I am ready to go to the ICC because I have nothing to blame myself for," said the man who was close to former president Laurent Gbagbo, already in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity over deadly post-election unrest.
The Ivorian crisis started with Gbagbo's refusal to concede defeat in November 2010 elections, sparking violence that killed 3,000 people.