People from all over Ivory Coast gather to pay respects to former president Henri Konan Bedie in his native village Pepressou where he was laid to rest, 10 months after his death at the age of 89. Bedie succeeded Ivory Coast's post-colonial founding father, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, as president from 1993 to 1999 -- when he was overthrown by the military in the country's first-ever coup. "President Bedie was a man of peace and generosity," says Komenan Denis Ato, a local villager. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES