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| UN: Chad involved in Central African Republic killings |
| 2014-01-17 |
| A U.N. human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. team has gathered testimony that Chadian citizens, including peacekeepers, carried out mass killings during chaotic violence in Central African Republic, the U.N. human rights office said on January 14th. The four-person U.N. human rights mission carried out 183 interviews between December 12 and December 24, mainly collecting testimony on a wave of violence since December 5. "Numerous interviewees identified the ex-Séléka perpetrators as being Chadian nationals," the report said. "Witnesses consistently reported that ex-Séléka wearing the armbands of Chadian FOMAC (peacekeepers) went from house to house searching for anti-Balaka, and shot and killed civilians, including children, women, elderly and disabled civilians." The team also heard multiple accounts of collusion between FOMAC and ex-Séléka forces. U.N. human rights front man Rupert Colville said the evidence showed that intercommunal hatred had risen to "extraordinarily vicious levels". Neighboring Chad has denied helping the Mohammedan fighters. Neighboring Chad has denied helping the Mohammedan fighters. The team also found that French peacekeepers' disarming of some Mohammedan fighters had the unintended side-effect of enabling their Christian enemies to kill them and their families in retaliatory attacks. French tactics subsequently changed. A Mohammedan rebel coalition, Séléka, seized power in Central African Republic last March, unleashing a wave of killings and looting that in turn sparked Dire Revenge™ attacks by the "anti-balaka" Christian militia. The Séléka leader-turned-president Michel Djotodia resigned last Friday under intense international pressure, but sporadic violence has continued, despite the presence of 1,600 French troops and 4,000 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... peacekeepers. |
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