"Peacekeepers aid Muslims fleeing mob in central Africa" by Krista Larson | Associated Press, December 13, 2013
BANGUI, Central African Republic — African peacekeepers fired into the air Thursday in Central African Republic’s chaotic capital, trying to disperse a mob bent on hunting down and killing Muslims taking refuge in a church compound.
Yeah, it's newly-formed(!) Christian militias in an area where the two have lived together in peace for basically forever. Oh, the stench of the CIA and western intelligence (French?) is all over this.
The unrest in Bangui underscored the rage and uncertainty that remains in the capital of the Central African Republic, despite the arrival of 1,600 French soldiers and patrols by regional African peacekeepers.
See: U.S. Ferrying French Into Central Africa
Part of the reason Hollande is the most-hated president in all of French history (think of that and for a minute).
The two forces are seeking to stabilize this impoverished, now lawless, country after more than 500 people were killed last week in sectarian bloodshed.
I no longer by the Zionist Jew narrative of sectarianism in any form, not just Sunni-Shiite or Muslim-Christian. Once the veil of false flags, covert intelligence operations, and newspaper ownership is factored in it's all discounted. The acts may have been happened, but other than that the presentation in my paper is all lies and distortions.
In March, an alliance of mostly Muslim rebels from the north tossed out the country’s Christian president in a coup that brought President Michel Djotodia to power. Rage has mounted recently against the men who took part in that coup.
Uh-huh.
On Thursday, several thousand people stood by as a group of young men lobbing huge rocks tried to break into the compound of the Saint-Jacques Church in Bangui, looking for a former rebel general they believed to be inside.
Did they lynch him or did the Israeli army come too the rescue?
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"Power visits Central African Republic amid strife; UN ambassador has a message: US is watching" by Somini Sengupta | New York Times, December 20, 2013
BANGUI, Central African Republic — The US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, landed in this besieged capital early Thursday with what she called a blunt and simple message: The United States is watching.
(Blog editor snorts in derision)
The trip, one of Power’s first since assuming her role at the United Nations, brings her to a country engulfed in deadly sectarian strife, with the goal of preventing further atrocities. It has raised expectations, and some tough questions. What is the United States willing to do to stop Christians and Muslims here from killing one another, and how much is it willing to spend?
What is anyone doing to stop the United States from killing people?
God, the arrogance permeates through the computer screen.
The United States has not responded to the crisis in Central African Republic with the same vigor as France, the nation’s former colonial power.
Colonials always leave intelligence cells behind; that's why the French are taking the lead in the reconquering of their former sphere of influence in Africa (plus they gotta get that gold out of there before the world finds out the Federal Reserve stole it all).
While France has sent 1,600 troops to help quell the fighting, the United States has made it clear that it has no plans to put boots on the ground, leaving it in a mostly supporting role.
Translation: we already have boots on the ground. They don't want to say it anymore because they know the entire American body politic has had it with wars for energy resources and empire for Israel.
But Power said she had come to Central African Republic because she wanted to see the horror for herself.
So when you join' to Gaza and the West Bank?
She is scheduled to meet with government leaders, peacekeepers, aid workers and civilians who survived machete-wielding militias to urge an immediate end to the violence that has alarmed officials around the world….
Related: No Power at U.N.
Hard to wield any with the nose firmly attached to the top of the crack of the Israeli ambassador's ass.
The visit was all the more noteworthy because the United States has no apparent economic or strategic interests here.
Yeah, we are so altrui$tic about killing you and ripping off re$ources.
It does, however, have a stated interest in staving off another Rwanda — a mission that is particularly resonant for Power, who has built her reputation on alerting the world to mass atrocities.
Unless they are committed by the EUSraeli empire. Then she is silent.
So who wanted the Rwandan intelligence chief dead, and why was it only a one-day wonder?
At least 600,000 people have been chased from their homes in this conflict, according to the United Nations. The dead have not been fully counted, but about 500 have been killed in the past month in the capital, Bangui, alone.
Diplomats and human rights workers have praised Power for pushing for greater US involvement in Central African Republic. But it remains to be seen whether she can interest the Obama administration in funding a large, robust, and costly UN peacekeeping mission here, which the UN Security Council has stopped short of authorizing.
First of all, I'm not for spending more taxpayer dollars for another U.N. mission in Africa while they can't even take care of the unemployed over here. The thought of Obummer being a world dictator and defying the U.N. again clinches my opposition.
“She has been the chief advocate for a stronger US role in dealing with the situation in the Central African Republic, which has led Obama to rapidly scale up the amount of money the Americans are providing,” said Peter Bouckaert, a researcher at Human Rights Watch whose chilling report on the recent violence in the country was released Thursday….
Oh, so they are doing it anyway! Disregard the previous s*** paragraph.
Related: Who is Human Rights Watch anyway?
Should be called Juman Rights Watch.
What Power has done so far is leverage her diplomatic bullhorn creatively. She has called the transitional president, Michel Djotodia, twice, most recently Sunday, when she expressed her concern about the ouster of three Cabinet ministers. Djotodia was installed this year by the Seleka, a group of mostly Muslim rebel fighters, after they overthrew the government.
It remains unclear how US officials can prevail on leaders to stop the violence in this vast, forested country. Djotodia is said to have some influence over the Seleka, or alliance, fighters, but their rivals — mostly Christian militias — are loosely organized and spread across the country, many parts of which are beyond the current reach of French and African forces.
Uh-huh. What that means is the CIA teams are all over the place!
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"6 peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic" Associated Press, December 27, 2013
BANGUI, Central African Republic — Six Chadian soldiers from the African Union peacekeeping force were killed on Christmas Day in the Gobongo neighborhood of the capital, officials said.
That doesn't seem very nice and looks calculated to provoke outrage. I've seen this script before.
Their destroyed car, with at least one body still inside, had not been removed a day later, underscoring how dangerous this nation has become, even for international forces tasked with pacifying it, said African Union spokesman Eloi Yao.
Oh, PACIFICATION! A EUPHEMISM from LONG AGO! That's a tell from the propaganda press.
As the African Union was struggling to secure the crime scene, they discovered another: Close to the presidential palace, peacekeepers discovered a mass grave.
‘‘We found around 20 bodies in a state of decomposition in an area that we call Panthers’ Hill,’’ Yao said.
The bodies were in civilian clothes, but officials are looking into whether they were fighters.
The Central African Republic has tilted to anarchy, as the Christian majority seeks revenge on Muslim rebels who took power in a coup nine months ago.
Jewspaper reminding me of the coup again, and the revenge seems so un-ChrIstiAn to me.
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"Central African Republic crisis worsens" by Nick Cumming-Bruce | New York Times, January 04, 2014
GENEVA — The number of people displaced by fighting between Muslim and Christian militias and vigilantes in the Central African Republic has more than doubled in the past month, and increasing violence is making it harder to deliver humanitarian relief, the United Nations warned Friday.
Great. ANOTHER African refugee crisis! Just what they need over there.
More than 935,000 people have been driven from their homes in the clashes between Christian militias and the mainly Muslim Seleka rebel group that overthrew President François Bozizé in March, up from around 400,000 at the start of December, said Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency. In the past month, relief supplies have reached about 23,000 people, he said.
That's ALMOST a MILLION PEOPLE!
Also see: Hopeless in the Philippines
Yeah, well...
A month after France dispatched additional troops to the Central African Republic to join African peacekeepers trying to restore stability, the violence is getting worse, “making the delivery of humanitarian relief ever more difficult,” Baloch said.
I'm sure the austerity-lashed French will appreciate reading that.
“Targeted attacks against civilians, looting, and the presence of armed elements at some displacement sites have severely limited humanitarian access to those in need of urgent assistance,” Baloch said. “We have heard about a lot of revenge attacks,” including attacks inside health clinics….
The presence of a French army contingent providing security at Bangui airport has not helped relief agencies trying to distribute humanitarian aid….
WHAAAAAAAATTTT!!!?
This really was about GETTING A BASE in there, wasnt it?
In addition, the World Health Organization reported Friday an outbreak of measles in Bangui as well as in the north of the country and said it was working with the medical charity Doctors Without Borders to start a crash vaccination program.
And thus we are "constant(ly)" reminded of the "garden(er)" that the pharmaceutical indu$try and it's African testing grounds. A $ide benefit to this, I'm sure, but…. hmmmmmm.
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And finally, Djotodia abdicates:
"C. African Republic leader pushed out; Resigns after he is summoned by Chad president" by Adam Nossiter | New York Times, January 11, 2014
BANGUI, Central African Republic — The president of the strife-torn Central African Republic quit under pressure Friday after regional leaders held him responsible for failing to halt the continuing sectarian violence in the country.
See: Ex-African leader requests exile
Michel Djotodia — whose chaotic nine-month rule in the impoverished country has been marked by abuses, including looting, killing, and kidnapping, of the mostly Muslim rebel movement he led to power — was pushed out after being summoned to neighboring Chad by that country’s president, Idriss Déby, a regional power broker.
Nearly 1 million people have fled their homes in the Central African Republic as a result of the violence, which has broadened to include reprisal attacks between Muslims and Christians. More than 1,000 people have been killed in the last month alone.
And who benefits?
“Our country has never lived through anything like this,” said Alexandre Ferdinand Nguendet, the parliamentary leader who was named Friday to serve as interim president.
Which makes it all the more suspicious.
Noting that civil servants had not been paid in at least three months, Nguendet said the country was ready to “explode.” He will serve for two weeks until a new “transitional president” is chosen by the temporary Parliament.
Joyful crowds poured into the battered streets of the capital, Bangui, after Djotodia’s departure was announced. Residents hoped his removal would be a turning point in the fortunes of their country, which has seen more coups and episodes of violence than free elections since it gained independence from France in 1960.
But pent-up anger over months of repression was still evident. Crowds rushed toward a store owned by Muslims to loot it; members of Djotodia’s rebel group, Seleka, were pursued in the streets; and some tried to loot the Culture Ministry as armored vehicles from France’s peacekeeping mission here blocked them.
“He’s killed a lot of Central Africans, and he certainly targeted the Christians much more; he’s a devil,” said Thibault Bomako, a 27-year-old student.
Déby, who is often accused of meddling in his much poorer neighbor’s affairs, made it clear that he was fed up with Djotodia’s handling of his own Muslim rebels and of the increasingly violent reaction against them by Christian militia groups.
Chadians residing in the Central African Republic have been among the victims; thousands of Déby’s Muslim citizens have been forced to flee the country. Revenge attacks against Muslims take place almost daily here.
And no one is really making a big deal of it!
France sent more than 1,000 troops in December after a new outbreak of violence, adding to the force permanently stationed in Bangui.
I see a connection between the two.
This week, Déby convened other regional presidents, as well as Djotodia, in his capital, N’Djamena, to attempt a resolution of the crisis afflicting his neighbor. The conference accepted Djotodia’s “resignation” in a statement Friday, calling it a “highly patriotic decision to end the country’s paralysis,” and blasting the “passivity of the Central African political class faced with the crisis which has gripped the country.”
Déby even took the unusual step of flying the entire membership of the country’s transitional Parliament of 135 members to N’Djamena on Thursday night from Bangui, forcing them to work until the early hours of Friday to come up with a solution.
Djotodia, a former civil servant who rode into the capital with other Muslim rebels last March from the country’s remote north in a frenzy of looting, was hated from the start by the largely Christian population in the south. For months, he insisted that his rebel movement had been disbanded and pacified, even as its men continued daily pillaging and kidnapping in the capital. The deposed president, François Bozizé, has fled the country.
Reconciliation may not be easy. “Now we’ve got to detain the Seleka, and those who committed abuses must answer for them,” said Parfait Désiré Zoga, a shopkeeper.
Djotodia insisted that he was not eager to stay in power and was merely preparing the way for future elections.
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Related: African leader declares chaos ‘over’
Just ignore the "retaliatory violence has killed 39 people since Friday."
