The cover story of sectarian massacre is starting to really, really stink. We have seen this play before, folks, many times.
"US to aid effort to calm African strife" Associated Press, December 10, 2013
DOHA, Qatar — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday ordered the US military to transport African troops from Burundi into the Central African Republic to help quell the latest upsurge in violence there.
Hagel approved the order after speaking with Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian of France from Afghanistan, where he was visiting US troops. Le Drian asked the United States to help get African troops quickly into the country to prevent the violence from spreading, said Pentagon spokesman Carl Woog.
There are more than 1,000 French troops in the Central African Republic, where Christian armed fighters launched an attack on the capital last week that killed about 400 people. The fighters oppose the Muslim former rebels in charge of the former French colony.
Woog said Hagel directed the US Africa Command to begin transporting forces in coordination with France because the United States believes immediate action is needed to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
Woog also said the Pentagon will be evaluating what other US resources might be available if additional requests for assistance come in.
No budget worries for a sequestered Pentagon, 'eh?
The transport flights are expected to begin in a day or two, according to a senior defense official who was not authorized to speak by name about the planning and thus requested anonymity.
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Related: France Doubles Force in Central Africa
"Reinforcements ordered into Central African Republic; French, African troops to bolster peacekeeping" by Krista Larson | Associated Press, December 08, 2013
BANGUI, Central African Republic — France and the African Union on Saturday announced plans to deploy several thousand more troops into embattled Central African Republic, as thousands of Christians fearing reprisal attacks sought refuge from the Muslim former rebels who now control the country after days of violence have left nearly 400 people dead — and possibly more.
French armored personnel carriers and troops from an AU-backed peacekeeping mission roared down Bangui’s major roads as families carrying palm fronds pushed coffins in carts on the shoulders. In a sign of the mounting tensions, others walking briskly on the streets carried bow-and-arrows and machetes.
Concluding a long-planned conference on African security in Paris, President Francois Hollande said France was raising its deployment to 1,600 on Saturday — 400 more than first announced.
Later, after a meeting of regional nations about Central African Republic, his office said that African Union nations agreed to increase their total deployment to 6,000 — up from about 2,500 now, and nearly double the projected rollout of 3,600 by year-end.
The AU is well-known to be Africa's military arm of the West.
After new massacres on Thursday, UN Security Council adopted a resolution that allows for a more muscular international effort to quell months of unrest in the country. Troops from France, the country’s former colonial overseer, were patrolling roads in Bangui and fanning out into the troubled northwest on Saturday.
The Central African Republic is being recolonized!
‘‘This force is going to deploy as quickly as possible and everywhere there are risks for the population, with the African forces that are present — currently 2,500 soldiers,’’ Hollande said, referring to the increased French presence. ‘‘In what I believe will be a very short period we will be able to stop all . . . massacres.’’
Or make completely new ones.
Human rights groups continued the grisly business of counting and collecting bodies of those killed in recent massacres. The death toll in the capital from the recent fighting rose on Saturday to 394, said Antoine Mbao Bogo of the local Red Cross.
Aid workers returned to the streets to collect bodies that had lain uncollected since Thursday, when Christian fighters, known as the anti-balaka, who oppose the country’s ruler descended on the capital in a coordinated attack on several mostly Muslim neighborhoods.
Smells like a covert intelligence agency operation to me.
Residents of Christian neighborhoods said the ex-rebels known as Seleka later carried out reprisals, going house to house in search of alleged combatants and firing at civilians who merely strayed into the wrong part of town.
Zumbeti Thierry Tresor, 23, was among those slain after he tried to cross through another neighborhood to visit family members in another part of Bangui. Seleka fighters shot him in the neck and stomach, his friends said. On Saturday, neighbors hiked the rocky path to his one-room home where his covered body lay.
Outside the front door, his wife wailed hysterically, gripping their 3-year-old daughter in her lap as neighbors crowded around her. Alongside their house, a team of a dozen men with sticks and shovels dug Tresor’s grave.
‘‘We want the French army to come and protect us,’’ said Tresor’s friend, Francois Yayi. ‘‘We have no police to call. The Seleka will kill us all.’’
In other words, a Muslim insurgency has taken over.
As families mourned their dead, others fled by the thousands to the few known safe places in the capital — the airport guarded by French troops and the grounds of a Catholic center run by the Salesians of Don Bosco. About 3,000 people had fled to the complex on Thursday when the fighting began and that number swelled to 12,000 by Saturday.
As dusk fell, hundreds of people began lining up outside the mission’s doors for a safe place to sleep, carting foam mattresses and plastic buckets of food on their heads. Some even toted wheeled luggage, not knowing when they could return.
Every bit of ground near the tennis courts was crowded with families preparing for a night on damp ground under the open sky.
Judith Lea, 47, came with a family of 20, including her 3-day-old grandson, to escape violence in their neighborhood on the north side of the capital. As people settled in for the night, she and the other female relatives argued over what to name the little boy who has spent nearly his entire life in a displacement camp.
It is so nice to see the agenda-pushing Zionist jewsmedia so worried about such kids.
‘‘When the Seleka rebels came to the house, they stole his blankets and all the little things we had bought for him,’’ Lea said, stretched out on the ground to rest. ‘‘When this war is over, what will we do? He is cold and hasn’t had his vaccines yet.’’
Cold in Central Africa?
Of course, those vaccines are important for the obviou$ rea$ons, my point being that is always that same intere$t that drives coverage in my propaganda pre$$.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Violence in African nation kills 500; 2 French troops die attempting to disarm rebels" by Krista Larson and Jamey Keaten | Associated Press, December 11, 2013
BANGUI, Central African Republic — More than 500 people have been killed over the past week in sectarian fighting in Central African Republic, aid officials said Tuesday, as France reported that gunmen killed two of its soldiers who were part of the intervention to disarm thousands of rebels accused of attacking civilians.
Aid workers have collected 461 bodies across Bangui, the capital, since Thursday, said Antoine Mbao Bogo of the local Red Cross. But that figure does not include the scores of Muslim victims whose bodies were brought to mosques for burial.
The government of the predominantly Christian country was overthrown in March by Muslim rebels from the country’s north. While the rebels claimed no religious motive for seizing power, months of resentment and hostility erupted last week in a wave of violence.
The French deaths came as President Francois Hollande arrived for a visit to France’s former colony, heading into the tumultuous capital after attending a memorial in South Africa for Nelson Mandela.
The austerity-strapped French taxpayers paying for that?
‘‘The mission is dangerous. We know it,’’ Hollande told troops in a huge airport hangar after paying respects at the coffins of the two young soldiers. ‘‘But it is necessary in order to avoid carnage.’’
President Michel Djotodia condemned the attack on the French forces and blamed former leader Francois Bozize, whom he ousted from power in March, for creating the turmoil now being unleashed on the streets of Bangui. Some 100,000 people have been forced from their homes, aid officials say.
The early French casualties underscore the volatility of the mission to disarm combatants and bring stability to a largely anarchic capital.
A mob on Monday stoned to death a suspected enemy in the street, and armed fighters have abducted and killed hospital patients.
Tensions flared again Tuesday as a mob of young men set fire to a mosque in the Fou neighborhood of Bangui. Smoke billowed from smoldering vehicles nearby, and young men used whatever tools they found to try to tear down the walls of the mosque.
Elsewhere, citizens killed three suspected former rebels in the Miskine neighborhood of Bangui after the men apparently fired weapons at civilians, residents said.
President Djotodia said Tuesday that former leader Bozize and his supporters had set the stage for the crisis months ago. ‘‘The current situation is the logical result of what former President Bozize set in motion by freeing prisoners and bandits, distributing weapons of war and machetes in the neighborhoods of Bangui, and inciting tribalism and religious hatred,’’ Djotodia said.
Bozize was overthrown after a decade in power and his current whereabouts are unknown. The former president maintains it was the arrival of thousands of rebels who descended upon the capital with arms who created the chaos.
France now has some 1,600 troops on the ground in Central African Republic, patrolling neighborhoods and trying to disarm militants from the Seleka rebel movement that forced the president into exile and installed their own leader Michel Djotodia as head of state.
I don't know what happened there and which forces were playing which side; however, I do know the end result: deeper French involvement in Africa. Cui bono?
The two French troops were part of a team inspecting a neighborhood less than a mile east of Bangui’s airport at about midnight Monday, in preparation for a disarmament operation, French military spokesman Colonel Gilles Jaron said in Paris.
Well, at least two more French fathers have paid the ultimate sacrifice for the New World Order.
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