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General Category => World News => Topic started by: mountaineer on August 09, 2013, 11:40:34 pm

Title: Central African Republic could become the next Rwanda as lawless rebels rape, loot and kill their way across the country
Post by: mountaineer on August 09, 2013, 11:40:34 pm

NY Post (excerpt) (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/central_african_republic_country_VgnTZdsxGrDS5zfLIsWSfO):

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Marauding rebels have run roughshod over the Central African Republic, raping, killing and looting the troubled country into a barren, lawless land.

The landlocked former French colony has dangerously drifted toward becoming the next Rwanda as Seleka rebels run the isolated nation with absolutely no accountability, according a report by the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/world/africa/violent-and-chaotic-central-african-republic-lurches-toward-a-crisis.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0). 

Even Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye, a human rights leader appointed by rebel leaders to be nation’s emissary to the outside world, said the nation is a chaotic mess.
 
“It’s anarchy, a nonstate,” said Tiangaye. “Looting, arson, rape, massacres of the civilian population — they are sowing terrorism,” he said, staring at the floor in his darkened office.

Faustin Ouaya, who once worked for what now seems like the laughable Ministry of Tourism, said the nation’s 5.1 million citizens are struggling for the most basic needs.

“One meal a day,” Ouaya told the Times. “Sometimes, not even that.” ...