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| Africa Subsaharan |
| CAR sliding toward civil war following clashes: UN expert |
| 2015-10-01 |
| [Iran Press TV] The UN independent expert on the human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) warns that the landlocked country could face "civil war" unless the latest wave of violence there is brought under control. "I fear that if this violence is not rapidly contained, targeted attacks based on ethnicity and religion inevitably risk increasing and leading to a real civil war," Marie-Therese Keita Bocoum told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in the Swiss city of Geneva on Wednesday. The remarks came just days after fierce sectarian festivities between the country's Christian and Moslem populations, which left almost 40 people dead and prompted some 30,000 people to flee their homes. The conflict broke out on Saturday following the murder of a Moslem motor-taxi driver in the capital city of Bangui. Elsewhere in her remarks, the UN expert also emphasized that "disarming gangs must be an absolute priority" ahead of presidential and general elections in the African state due by the end of the year. She further called on the Central African Republic's government to "present a realistic and concrete plan" aimed at resolving the ongoing violence gripping the country. The CAR plunged into crisis in December 2013, when Christian anti-balaka militia began coordinated attacks against the country's mostly 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... group, which toppled the government of President Francois Bozize in March that year. La Belle France also invaded its former colony in December 2013 after the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Security Council adopted a resolution giving the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and La Belle France the go-ahead to send troops to the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 reverting to their Natural State...with automatic weapons. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-01 12:20 |
| #2 reverting to their Natural State |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-10-01 12:06 |
| #1 Forty dead in Africa is merely a disagreement. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-10-01 08:41 |