{"id":286,"date":"2014-02-13T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/ethnic-cleansing-in-central-african-republic.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T09:42:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T14:42:16","slug":"ethnic-cleansing-in-central-african-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/ethnic-cleansing-in-central-african-republic.html","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic Cleansing in Central African Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RXVSFQX51fI\/Uvzc3d2VkQI\/AAAAAAAAFNc\/DuPHc6xopgE\/s1600\/car.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RXVSFQX51fI\/Uvzc3d2VkQI\/AAAAAAAAFNc\/DuPHc6xopgE\/s400\/car.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Christian militias in the Central African Republic (CAR ) are attempting to purge Muslims from their war-torn country. Amnesty International calls it ethnic cleansing and says that the militias are forcing \u201ca Muslim exodus of historic proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why and why should anyone care?<\/p>\n<p>The CAR is a former French colony. Last year, Muslim rebels (known as Seleka) ousted the president. Christian militias then began fighting Muslims and forcing them out of the country. Peacekeepers include about 1600 French troops and about 6000 troops from an African Union-led peacekeeping force.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/12\/world\/africa\/central-african-republic-muslims\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to this CNN story<\/a>, \u00a0Amnesty International says that these forces have not done much to stop the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Refugee Agency calls the violence \u201ca humanitarian catastrophe of unspeakable proportions.\u201d And the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/13\/world\/asia\/rights-groups-warn-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-central-african-republic.html?_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> New York Times reports<\/a> that \u201centire neighborhoods in the capital, Bangui, have been emptied because of attacks by the Christian militias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/16\/us-centralafrican-idUSBREA0F0PR20140116\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reuters says<\/a> that there is a risk of genocide without \u00a0\u201ca more robust international response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-13150040\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The BBC has an excellent short \u00a0country profile<\/a> of the CAR and they call it one of the least developed countries in the world. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2014\/02\/14\/277011252\/feathers-plucked-muslims-plea-to-flee-central-african-republic?ft=1&amp;f=1001&amp;utm_content=socialflow&amp;utm_campaign=nprnews&amp;utm_source=npr&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">NPR just did a story<\/a>about the fleeing Muslims which you can access here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cqK3rkwNMew\/UvzjabMoViI\/AAAAAAAAFNs\/3Vciu6NedQo\/s1600\/topics-C_A_Rmap.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cqK3rkwNMew\/UvzjabMoViI\/AAAAAAAAFNs\/3Vciu6NedQo\/s400\/topics-C_A_Rmap.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources_v2\/flash\/video_embed.swf?videoId=276619314&amp;edition=BETAUS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian militias in the Central African Republic (CAR ) are attempting to purge Muslims from their war-torn country. Amnesty International calls it ethnic cleansing and says that the militias are forcing \u201ca Muslim exodus of historic proportions.\u201d Why and why should anyone care? The CAR is a former French colony. Last year, Muslim rebels (known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ethnic Cleansing in Central African Republic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Christian militias in the Central African Republic (CAR ) are attempting to purge Muslims from their war-torn country. 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