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Former CAR Militia Leader Arrested on Suspicion of War Crimes
 [All Africa] A leading African soccer official was juggedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Wednesday in La Belle France on charges of war crimes committed in the Central African Republic. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Patrice Edouard Ngaissona was the most big shot and "national general coordinator'' of the anti-Balaka militia. The ICC said that as the leader of the mostly Christian militia, Ngaissona was suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, deportation, persecution, torture, attacking civilians and recruiting child soldiers. sounds Islamic The anti-Balaka militia was formed in 2013 to counter the 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 who seized control of the CAR capital, Bangui and ousted President Francois Bozize. The resulting civil war has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands more. Ngaissona is head of his country's national soccer federation. In February, he was elected to the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for soccer on the continent, prompting many to think he was untouchable. But Lewis Mudge, senior researcher in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, said the arrest proved "even high-level figures implicated in grave crimes can be arrested to face justice." Posted by: Fred 2018-12-15 |
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