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Offline TomSea

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Inside the brutal war that's ripping apart the Central African Republic

ALINDAO, Central African Republic — Solange pleaded with her husband, Bruno, to run as she heard screams and smelled neighbors’ homes burning. But he decided to lock the family in the house instead — the gunshots were too close.

The men were fighters from the Union for Peace (UPC), a predominantly Muslim armed rebel group in the Central African Republic. They were going house to house, searching for members of “anti-balaka,” the term used for their enemies, Christian self-defense militias.

Bruno insisted he was a volunteer with the local Red Cross, not a fighter. But the men killed him anyway, in front of his wife and children.

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Re: Inside the brutal war that's ripping apart the Central African Republic
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2017, 04:25:22 pm »
I wonder if the UN will pass a resolution condemning this?