‘Unhappily they [rebels] came and there are a lot of people who are dead. They came and stripped us of all our resources, our goods and all that we had. They attacked our children, our young people, and they exterminated them.’ said Julienne Yasso, victim of the Central African Republic armed conflict.
Julienne Yasso is only one of the thousands of civilians affected by a wave of killings and widespread looting in the Central African Republic, where a sectarian armed conflict erupted almost a year ago.
Now the United Nations and NGOs are warning that the episodes of violence could escalate into genocide if the international community fails to act.
In one of the poorest countries in the world, more than a million people have fled their homes. Over a thousand civilians were killed last December alone in the capital, Bangui. …
