"Romeo
adds: 'We have never seen religions tensions like this before. This is
not a Muslim country; it is a Christian country. We have never seen so
many Muslims in the country before. They have come from other
countries.'"
Report from the hell worlds...
"A massacre of the innocents is taking place in the heart of Africa as the world looks the other way.
My
four-year-old son's throat was slit, says one man, and when I went to
look for him I found a snake swallowing a baby. I am caring for this
child, explains a woman, because yesterday her mother went searching for
medicine and was hacked to death with Kalashnikovs. We were bound and
thrown to the crocodiles, explain a group of young men, but a few of us
managed to swim to safety.
This
is the world of horrors that the Central African Republic (CAR) has
become. Thousands of people are dying at the hands of soldiers and
militia gangs or from untreated diseases such as malaria. Boys and girls
as young as eight are press ganged into fighting between Christians and
Muslims. There are reports of beheadings and public execution-style
killings. Villages are razed to the ground. ...
"They
started to attack my son. They tried to shoot him but the gun was not
working. So they slit his throat instead. What threat does this child
pose to the Seleka?" ...
Everyone
here has a sad story to tell. Zita Nganamodei, 26, has a baby girl tied
to her back who is not her own. Yesterday, she says, her neighbour,
Josephine Kolefei, brought the baby for medical treatment without
realising she was crossing an arbitrary boundary that the Seleka had
just imposed. The 35-year-old was beaten with a Kalashnikov and taken to
hospital where she died.
"I went to site and found the baby on the ground," says Nganamodei, who has two children of her own. ...
What
started as a political movement against the corrupt and autocratic
Bozize is now taking on an ominously religious character. Nearly all the
Seleka are Muslim ...
Romeo
adds: "We have never seen religions tensions like this in the CAR
before. The CAR is not a Muslim country; it is a Christian country. We
have never seen so many Muslims in the country before. They have come
from other countries."
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