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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Peacekeepers disarm militias in C. Africa capital |
| 2014-02-16 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] French and African peacekeepers yesterday seized weapons from militia in the capital of the strife-torn Central African Republic, but failed to detained a wanted leader of the rogue groups. The international troops went house to house for about four hours in Bangui's Boy Rabe neighbourhood, the base of mostly Christian militias whose attacks have driven many minority Moslems from the city in recent weeks, sparking warnings of "ethnic cleansing". Automatic weapons, grenades and a large number of munitions were seized in the operation that involved some 250 peacekeepers and police, according to an AFP correspondent on the scene. "All people who were found to have weapons in their homes have been identified and will be handed over to the police," a peacekeeper 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... MISCA mission told AFP. But despite surrounding the house of a senior militia leader Patrice Edouard Ngaissona, the soldiers failed to capture the man who casts himself as the political coordinator of the fearsome "anti-balaka" militias. "They didn't manage to take me, I was out," Ngaissona said later. Bangui chief prosecutor Ghislain Grezenguet said Ngaissona was "the big fish who had to be detained." Peacekeepers left the neighbourhood after about four hours to jeers from residents. The so-called "anti-balaka" militias were formed in the country in response to killing and pillaging by the mainly Moslem Seleka rebels following their coup nearly a year ago in the majority Christian nation. In recent months, as international peacekeepers deployed to the former French colony have disarmed the Seleka, brutal attacks by the militias have sowed terror among the Moslem population, forcing many to flee the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Disarming them so the Muzzies can massacre them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-02-16 15:41 |
| #1 OK. So now the French and African peacekeepers should go to Nigeria and disarm Boko Haram. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2014-02-16 15:33 |