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An enduring divide was to be expected. The post-election upheaval was not only brutal — the country saw extrajudicial executions as well as torture, rapes and kidnappings — but also rooted in a decades-long ethnic and regional division. President Ouattara has begun to try to heal the enmity, promising to reform and depoliticize the country's pro-south judicial system and army and set up an inquiry into the violence as well as a South African-style reconciliation commission. Largely peaceful legislative elections in December also led to the formation of a new parliament, which will start work in April.