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See an opportunity to sell weapons?Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
I thought you Africans wanted the white man out of Africa? Why should we do anything???
Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
Yep,
Build your own fucking continent. Truly I am done with supporting any kind of nation building.
Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
Chaos and madness are unleased in the Central African Republic. Along with wanton rapings and looting. These have been the reports coming out of Bangui, the capitial city of the CAR.
What will America and the U.N. do to stop this insanity.?
I thought you Africans wanted the white man out of Africa? Why should we do anything???
Ask south Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Nigeria to clean up the mess.
A statement from the agency Tuesday said most of the refugees have fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, while others have gone to Chad, the Republic of Congo and Cameroon.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said another 206,000 people have been internally displaced. He told VOA his agency is very concerned about the situation in the Central African Republic, noting there have been reports of serious human rights violations such as rapes and shootings.
The refugee agency said in recent days that two U.N. staff members were attacked in the capital, Bangui, and were seriously wounded. The husband of one of the aid workers was killed.
Fighting between government troops and Seleka rebels erupted in December. The rebels seized Bangui in March, forcing President Francois Bozize to flee the country. The transitional government has not been able to restore law and order.
UN: Thousands Fleeing Unrest in Central African Republic
Flee instead of fighting for better. Fail!
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. CAR is a mostly Christian and animist country, a little smaller than Texas, with a long history of instability. The U.N. says virtually the entire population of 4.6 million is affected by the current crisis, which erupted almost a year ago when an Islamic rebel alliance called Seleka began launching attacks.
Last March, Seleka overthrew President Francois Bozize, a Christian former army chief who had himself toppled an elected president in 2003, the latest in a series of coups since independence from France in 1960. The rebel coalition installed its leader, Michel Djotodia a Soviet-educated Muslim civil servant as president. In August, a transitional period envisaging elections in 18 months formally began, but elements of the now supposedly-disbanded Seleka are continuing to carry out attacks on Christian civilians, with murders, summary executions, pillaging, sexual violence and church burnings reported. Christian vigilante groups have begun to fight back since September. The U.N. Childrens Fund said on Friday the number of children now fighting, on both sides of the conflict, has risen to an estimated 6,000. Some 400,000 people have been displaced.
Some of the estimated 37,000 people fleeing the fighting who are sheltering at a Catholic church in Bossangoa, Central African Republic
Briefing the Security Council, deputy secretary-general Jan Eliasson said the country was experiencing unprecedented Muslim-Christian violence. Traditional harmony among communities has been replaced by polarization and widespread horror. The CAR is becoming a breeding ground for extremists and armed groups in a region that is already suffering from conflict and instability, he said. If this situation is left to fester, it may degenerate into a religious and ethnic conflict with longstanding consequences, a relentless civil war that could easily spill over into neighboring countries. Some call this a forgotten crisis, Eliasson said. The world is haunted by the horrors of crises that we watched from a distance spiral into atrocities. We must never forget.
He laid out several options for the world body, including bilateral, multilateral or U.N. support funded through a trust fund. But he came down squarely behind one proposal to transform a 2,500-strong African-led mission into a U.N. peacekeeping operation comprising an estimated 6,000 troops and 1,700 police personnel. Such a force, he said, would lay the foundation for transparent, accountable and resilient institutions and, hopefully, enhance the international communitys ability to apply political leverage.
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