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'Around 100 killed' in CAR's Bria despite truce deal
[Al Jazeera] As many as 100 people may have been killed in a day of festivities between rival factions in the Central African Republic town of Bria, shortly after a truce deal was signed, the town's mayor said.Bodies lay in the streets of Bria, around 580km northeast of the capital, Bangui, and dozens more people were treated for shotgun wounds after fighting erupted at dawn on Tuesday. "The corpse count will certainly rise. For now it's an estimate and it could be up to 100 dead," Maurice Belikoussou told the Rooters news agency on Wednesday by telephone, raising an earlier corpse count of "around 50". "There are still dead lying in the neighbourhoods, in the road and in the bush," he said. Witnesses said houses were looted and set on fire during the festivities. The country, one of the poorest in the world, has been plagued by conflict since 2013 between the mainly Moslem Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... rebels and the Christian Anti-Balaka militia that started after the overthrow of leader Francois Bozize. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-22 |
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