Christians Flee Marauding Muslims in Africa’s ‘Forgotten Crisis’

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There really is a need for a UN peace keeping force in many parts of Africa. Too many people are being killed.

Christians Flee Marauding Muslims in Africa’s ‘Forgotten Crisis’
November 26, 2013 - 5:01 AM

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By Patrick Goodenough

(CNSNews.com) - The Central African Republic (CAR) is “descending into complete chaos,” becoming a breeding ground for extremists and threatening to sink into religious and ethnic conflict that could spread through an already troubled region, the U.N. Security Council was told on Monday.

Tens of thousands of Christians who have fled violent attack by Muslim rebels are sheltering at a Catholic mission in a town called Bossangoa, about 250 miles north of the capital, Bangui. Last week, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned that the country was “on the verge of genocide.”

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Renewed violence in CAR injures 200...

Doctors Group: 200 Wounded Since Friday in CAR
December 24, 2013 ~ A medical aid group says renewed violence in the Central African Republic has wounded nearly 200 people over the past five days.

Doctors Without Borders says increased violence in the capital, Bangui, began on December 20, when the group treated 49 people for gunshot wounds. Much of the fighting in the CAR is between mostly Muslim former rebels, known as ex-Seleka, and mostly Christian militias, known as anti-balaka.

VOA correspondent Idriss Fall, who has spent several days in Bangui, reports the increased number of gunshot victims could indicate a change in tactics for the anti-balaka fighters, who previously carried out most of their attacks with machetes. "It means that the anti-balaka people are having guns right now. Where do they come from? We don't know," said Fall.

French soldiers run a check on a civilian along a street in Central African Republic's capital Bangui, Dec. 23, 2013.

Fall reported the capital was mostly calm Tuesday but tensions remained high because of the presence of armed groups. "The mob is still here. Even when you cross in the market places where, you know, you have a lot of people, you don't ever, ever know what could happen. They could take you for a French guy or they could take you for a Muslim. So, it is still very, very tense and very, very dangerous," he said.

At a Tuesday news conference, CAR interim president Michel Djotodia appealed for calm. Fall reported he also addressed an incident this week in which three presidential guard soldiers were killed by French troops. The president described the shooting as an accident. He said, at the time, the soldiers were not in uniform and did not have their papers, authorizing them to carry weapons.

Last Thursday, Amnesty International said more than 1,000 people had been killed in Bangui since violence flared earlier this month. French and African soldiers have been deployed in CAR to disarm fighters and curb the unrest. The country has endured months of instability since the Seleka rebels overthrew President Francois Bozize in March.

Doctors Group: 200 Wounded Since Friday in CAR

 

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Children victims of unprecedented violence...

Relief agencies say Bangui violence ‘out of control’
Wed, Jan 01, 2014 - UNICEF WARNING: The UN agency said children in the capital were the victims of ‘unprecedented’ violence last month, with at least 16 killed and 60 others injured

Violence in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, is “out of control,” with fighting between Christians and Muslims resulting in lynchings and machete attacks, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
Since early last month teams working in several medical projects in Bangui have treated more than 1,000 victims of violence, the medical humanitarian organization founded in France in 1971, said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. “People are coming in with machete wounds to the head, hands and arms,” Laurent Sury, emergency coordinator of MSF in Bangui, said in the statement. “We’ve also seen people who have been stabbed, sometimes multiple times, in the abdomen, and people who have either been tortured or brutally beaten. For the most part, these are young men.”

The Central African Republic was plunged into lawlessness after rebels overthrew Christian president Francois Bozize in March and Michel Djotodia, a Muslim, was appointed as national leader. Fighting between militia from the Christian majority and Muslim rebels flared up on Dec. 5. About 370,000 people, almost half the population of Bangui, have been displaced over the last three weeks, UNICEF said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. About 875,000 people have been internally displaced throughout the country since the outbreak of violence more than a year ago. At least two children have been beheaded in the fighting, UNICEF said, adding “unprecedented” levels of violence were being committed against youngsters.

UNICEF said that of the two children beheaded, one had also been mutilated. It also said it could verify the deaths of at least 16 children and 60 injured since the outbreak of fighting last month. “We are witnessing unprecedented levels of violence against children,” UNICEF representative in Central Africa Souleymasne Diabate said.
“More and more children are being recruited into armed groups, and they are also being directly targeted in atrocious revenge attacks,” he said. “Targeted attacks against children are a violation of international humanitarian and human rights law and must stop immediately.”

UNICEF said children forced into fighting by both sides in the conflict should be immediately disarmed and be protected from any reprisals. It also called for centers to be established for the “reintegration” of children as well as protect those still at risk. Health facilities have also been affected by the violence, MSF said. An armed man entered a dispensary, medical teams were forced to temporarily evacuate a hospital and Ministry of Health staff were threatened, MSF said. “The atmosphere is becoming increasingly tense with each of these ‘visits’ as the attackers become more and more aggressive,” Thomas Curbillon, MSF’s head of mission in Bangui said in the statement.

Relief agencies say Bangui violence ?out of control? - Taipei Times

 

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Where's the French air force?
Only one thing marauding Muslim thugs understand.

Christian majority?
Time the Christian majority armed themselves to the teeth and defended themselves.

Onward Christian soldiers!
Arms shipments must immediately be sent to the Christians.

TIME to break out the bombs and missiles and teach these marauding Muslim rebels a lesson.

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Not American troops, but African Christian troops.