Saturday, January 10, 2015

Who's caring about CAR

Christian militias in Central African Republic have carried out ethnic cleansing of the Muslim population during the country's ongoing civil war a United Nations commission of inquiry has said and added constitutes a crime against humanity".

"Thousands of people died as a result of the conflict. Human rights violations and abuses were committed by all parties. The Seleka coalition and the anti-balaka are also responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity," the inquiry said. 6,000 people had been killed though it "considers that such estimates fail to capture the full magnitude of the killings that occurred"

The mostly Christian or animist "anti-balaka" militia took up arms in 2013 in response to months of looting and killing by mostly Muslim Seleka rebels who had toppled President Francois Bozize and seized power in March the same year. In September 2014, the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into allegations of murder, rape and the recruiting of child soldiers in the Central African Republic.


Some 5,600 African Union peacekeepers plus about 2,000 French troops have been deployed in the impoverished landlocked country of 4.6 million people. The United Nations took over the African Union peacekeeping mission in September and is mandated by the Security Council to double its size to nearly 12,000 troops and police.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2015/01/un-muslims-ethnically-cleansed-car-2015196546788288.html

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