{"id":4070,"date":"2014-07-14T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T09:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2014-07-14T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T09:47:03","slug":"central-african-republic-killings-in-the-time-of-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/central-african-republic-killings-in-the-time-of-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic: killings in the time of transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a few weeks earlier this year, no one needs an alarm clock to wake up in Bangui. The sound of gunfire, sometimes sustained and heavy, has become a morning ritual in the Central African Republic\u2019s (CAR) capital city. To most people here, identifying where the shots come from is a survival skill.<\/p>\n<p>Worse still, since early December 2013, Christians, but more so members of the Muslim minority, risk their lives each time they venture out of their now segregated neighbourhoods \u2013 a troubling sign of a deepening religious divide. Killings happen daily. On occasion, cheering crowds have participated in chilling acts of lynching, only to return to normal life thereafter, as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n<p>On 5 February, not far from downtown Bangui, soldiers from the regular army lynched a suspected militia combatant. It did not seem to matter to them that journalists were filming the scene&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/2014\/07\/13\/central-african-republic-killings-time-transition\/#dnePhoto\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Central African Republic\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/\">Central African Republic<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few weeks earlier this year, no one needs an alarm clock to wake up in Bangui. The sound of gunfire, sometimes sustained and heavy, has become a morning ritual in the Central African Republic\u2019s (CAR) capital city. To most people here, identifying where the shots come from is a survival skill. Worse still, [&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":[252],"tags":[2722,258,256,465,302,4696,4689,303,322,2723,463,257,254],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-acts-of-lynching","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bangui","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-christians","tag-lynched-a-suspected-militia-combatant","tag-muslim","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","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=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/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=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}