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| Nine More Bodies Found in Bangui Streets |
| 2014-02-26 |
| [An Nahar] The Red Thingy said Tuesday it had collected nine more bodies in Bangui, bringing to 1,240 the number of confirmed deaths from the violence in the Central African capital since December. Among the corpses collected by Red Thingy staff were two Chadian soldiers from 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... peacekeeping force MISCA and two civilians who were killed on Sunday in festivities with gunnies on Sunday. The bodies of the other five were retrieved from several Bangui neighborhoods, a Red Thingy official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity. The exact time and circumstances of their death was not clear but they all had bullet or machete wounds. The Central African Red Thingy had found another six bodies in Bangui between Thursday and Saturday last week. The Red Thingy official said his staff had now collected a total of 1,240 bodies from the streets of Bangui since December 5, when French troops deployed in a bid to quell flaring sectarian unrest. He said the real corpse count for Bangui was probably much higher as the bodies of many people killed in the Mohammedan-Christian festivities are often retrieved and buried immediately by relatives. The Red Thingy tally does not include deaths from the fighting in other cities and rural areas, where aid groups and news hounds have had little access. "Things are not improving in Bangui. Nine bodies in a day, that's a lot," the Red Thingy official said. La Belle France has been defending its record in the Central African Republic, citing improvements in Bangui security and denying claims of ethnic cleansing. La Belle France's parliament was expected Tuesday to approve a mandate extension for Operation Sangaris, the military mission Gay Paree launched nearly three months ago in its former colony. |
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