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| 27 Muslims killed in C.Africa village attack: UN |
| 2013-12-14 |
| [Al Ahram] Twenty-seven Muslims were killed Thursday in an attack by militias in a village in the west of the Central African Republic, the UN's human rights agency said Friday. "According to information we have received, 27 Muslims were killed by self-defence militias, known as anti-Balaka, in the village of Bohong ... on Thursday," agency spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva, decrying "a vicious cycle of attacks and reprisals" in the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Muslims are 15% of the population. Funny how no one has decried the ascension to power by a tiny minority of the population via armed revolution. I guess that's because the rulers are Sunni Muslims (rather than Alawites) and the oppressed are animists and Christians (rather than Sunni Muslims). Once again, the French have put their full support behind the minority Sunni Muslims just as they did in the Ivory Coast. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2013-12-14 14:34 |
| #2 From the NYT: Chaos and sectarian killings have steadily spread throughout the Central African Republic since predominantly Muslim Seleka—“Alliance”—rebels ousted the Christian president, Francois Bozize, in March. (The Muslim current ruler and former) Rebel leader Michel Djotodia (claims to have) lost control of his forces, which have carried out atrocities against Christians across the resource-rich, but unstable former French colony. Over time, Christian militias retaliated. Last week shootings, stabbings and lynchings spiraled across the country. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2013-12-14 14:25 |
| #1 Horrible. Simply horrible. Especially, as you can't blame it on white heterosexual males! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-12-14 04:33 |