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2013-10-27 Africa Subsaharan

Hundreds of Vigilantes Attack Town in Central African Republic

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Posted by Fred 2013-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This is not news, it's.... like football, a national sport.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-10-27 05:39|| 2013-10-27 05:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The vigilantes are Christian. Some background:

Bossangoa - Framing the deserted streets, the burned roofs of Bossangoa's destroyed neighbourhoods are a stark reminder of the violence that has recently unfolded in this Central African town.

Bossangoa's residents have fled in three directions: Christians have occupied the Catholic church, Muslims a local school, and the Fula people, a distinct Muslim group, have taken over an airfield.

It is the latest sign of a worrying new turn in the increasingly sectarian conflict between the area's Christian majority and fighters from the former Seleka rebel alliance who are largely drawn from the country's Muslim minority.

All around Bossangoa, Christian vigilante groups are springing up, bent on defending their villages from further atrocities.

Armed with home-made guns, machetes, or simply holding clubs, these villagers proclaim themselves "ready to die" to defend their land from the relentless attacks by the fighters.

"Our women and girls were raped," a villager told AFP on condition of anonymity. "They took everything, even our grain, and we no longer have anything to eat. Our children have no drinking water, and we live in the bush like animals," he said, in a voice shaking with fear and anger.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-10-27 08:38|| 2013-10-27 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 What I'd like to know is who is funding, arming, training and feeding the Muslim minority that is now lording it over the country's 80% Christian population.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-10-27 08:40|| 2013-10-27 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 who is funding?
Essentially, the world's oil consumers, via the Persian Gulf Islamic theocracies, primarily KSA.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-10-27 08:52|| 2013-10-27 08:52|| Front Page Top

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