“The country stands on the brink of genocide; some would say it has already commenced,” said Tutu in a statement released by his Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.
“It is the people of the Central African Republic who hold the key to sustainable peace. It is the people who must re-learn to live together,”
Tutu warned that over the 13 months the country’s “incessant struggles” for power and resources had “degenerated into anarchy, hatred and ethnic cleansing.
He said that the United Nation’s announcement that it would deploy a peacekeeping force was a “massive relief”.
However, Tutu said that he joined the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon’s call for the leaders and people of the CAR “to rekindle the spirit of tolerance and mutual respect”….
South Africa Today – Africa News
