What is really happening in Central Africa
The Central African Republic is a country located in Central Africa , bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo to the south and Cameroon to the west. In recent years, the country has took a calamitous and vicious route of religious intolerance where the confrontation between the Muslim group Seleka and the mainly Christian and animist group anti-Balaka is committing serious human rights violations. This conflict, which started as mainly political, is progressively taking a religious character as there are increasing reports of retaliation killings by the Christian and Muslim populations respectively.
To understand what is happening today in Central African Republic(CAR) requires both understanding of the history of the country, its economic situation, and its religious components. However, this would require us to do extensive research and readings which would abstract us from the main point of this blog post which is mainly to increase awareness of the mass atrocities that are happening in this poor nation.
Concisely, after the 2012 coup of François Bozizé by the Seleka rebel group shifted the nation's long-lasting and deep-rooted ethnic and regional political conflicts into religious one; and the increased instability that resulted after the coup, paved the way to lawlessness and turmoil. The rise of the anti-Balaka militia worsened the conflict towards the end of the year 2013 with international warnings of a "genocide" and fighting was largely from reprisal attacks on civilians from Seleka's predominantly Muslim fighters and Christian militias called "anti-balaka. The killing of civilians, although unusual in the political conflicts of the past, took another route when the Christian based militia, the anti-Balaka, decided also to not only kill civilians in reprisal killings but targeted them to convert at gunpoint. In conclusion, the violence and brutality in CAR has gotten less media attention mainly due to the middle eastern political crisis, therefore I encourage everyone to not only read about this post but also think of the Muslims who are the victims in CAR which I believe would bring pressure to the new government to prevent this mass atrocity and Islamophobia that has ravaged this nation.
To understand what is happening today in Central African Republic(CAR) requires both understanding of the history of the country, its economic situation, and its religious components. However, this would require us to do extensive research and readings which would abstract us from the main point of this blog post which is mainly to increase awareness of the mass atrocities that are happening in this poor nation.
Concisely, after the 2012 coup of François Bozizé by the Seleka rebel group shifted the nation's long-lasting and deep-rooted ethnic and regional political conflicts into religious one; and the increased instability that resulted after the coup, paved the way to lawlessness and turmoil. The rise of the anti-Balaka militia worsened the conflict towards the end of the year 2013 with international warnings of a "genocide" and fighting was largely from reprisal attacks on civilians from Seleka's predominantly Muslim fighters and Christian militias called "anti-balaka. The killing of civilians, although unusual in the political conflicts of the past, took another route when the Christian based militia, the anti-Balaka, decided also to not only kill civilians in reprisal killings but targeted them to convert at gunpoint. In conclusion, the violence and brutality in CAR has gotten less media attention mainly due to the middle eastern political crisis, therefore I encourage everyone to not only read about this post but also think of the Muslims who are the victims in CAR which I believe would bring pressure to the new government to prevent this mass atrocity and Islamophobia that has ravaged this nation.
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