{"id":2564,"date":"2014-06-13T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T02:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2014-06-13T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T02:36:04","slug":"central-african-republic-president-seeks-icc-probe-into-crimes-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/central-african-republic-president-seeks-icc-probe-into-crimes-committed\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic President seeks ICC probe into crimes committed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BANGUI (Reuters) &#8211; Central African Republic&#8217;s President Catherine Samba-Panza has sent a request to the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into crimes committed during inter-communal violence raging here since mid-2012, state radio said.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly Muslim rebel group Seleka stands accused of committing abuses against the Christian majority of the poor, former French colony as part of a bid that began two years ago to overthrow the rule of President Francois Bozize.<\/p>\n<p>Christian self-defence militia, known as anti-balaka or anti-machete, sought to counter their attacks but later began committing abuses themselves. Samba-Panza became President in January after Seleka leader Michel Djotodia succumbed to pressure to step down for failing to stop the bloodshed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFKBN0EN0ER20140612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News Central Africa <a title=\"Central African Republic\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/\">Central African Republic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGUI (Reuters) &#8211; Central African Republic&#8217;s President Catherine Samba-Panza has sent a request to the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into crimes committed during inter-communal violence raging here since mid-2012, state radio said. Mostly Muslim rebel group Seleka stands accused of committing abuses against the Christian majority of the poor, former French colony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[301,252],"tags":[258,256,316,603,465,302,4696,4689,303,601,599,600,602,257,254],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-africa","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anti-balaka","tag-anti-machete","tag-bangui","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-crimes-committed","tag-icc","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-muslim-rebel-group-seleka","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}