The United Nations will not publish a list of suspected human rights violators in war-divided Ivory Coast to avoid compromising expected court action, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Sunday. "There is a list, but it will not be published for one simple reason: if we are going to pursue the guilty in the courts and not compromise the situation, we will not publish the list," Annan told reporters during an African Union summit. Annan added that the names could come out anyway if prosecutors succeed in bringing suspects to trial. Luis Moreno Ocampo, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, said in Johannesburg on Friday that he was sending a team to Ivory Coast to prepare for a possible investigation. Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower, has been split in two since rebels hoping to oust Gbagbo seized the north after a failed coup attempt in September 2002. Thousands have been killed and many more forced to flee their homes during fighting. Annan also urged the rebels to return to Ivory Coast's power-sharing government as a precursor to disarming. The rebels withdrew last October, just before Gbagbo's forces launched bombings raids on the north, breaking an 18-month ceasefire.
