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Central African Republic: Where have all the people gone?
BBC ^ | 2 December 2013 Last updated at 19:34 ET | Andrew Harding

Posted on 12/04/2013 8:17:31 AM PST by Pan_Yan

The dirt roads here are ominously empty. So are the villages.

Every few kilometres the thick bush recedes to reveal a few mud brick houses with straw roofs. Sometimes a dog or a goat stares from a doorway. Many of the homes have been burnt.

But where are the people?

(SNIP)

Half an hour later, we reached a clearing and more than a dozen civilians standing beside a makeshift shelter. In all, roughly 400,000 people in CAR are thought to be in a similar plight.

"We live like animals here. No clean water. No food. No medicine. No salt. No soap," said Mareus Faiton-Haena, a 32-year-old teacher, who said the community felt trapped by the Seleka on one side and armed Muslim pastoralists on the other.

(SNIP)

Towards evening we stopped in the market town of Bossangoa, where some 40,000 civilians are currently seeking shelter - Muslims at a mosque, Christians in the grounds of the Catholic church.

"The relationship on the streets between Muslims and Christians is broken. Perhaps forever," said Father Dieudonne. "But if Seleka leave town, maybe the relationship can survive."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; car; centralafrica; france; muslims; un
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The Muslim Seleka rebels in CAR are supported by the governments of Chad and Sudan, thus they have much better arms than the local Christians as well as foreign fighters in their ranks. On one hand I want the French to hurry up and insert the 1,000 extra troops they've promised to stabalize the country. On the other hand any Western nation that would send troops into a situation like this one is begging to be part of a disaster.
1 posted on 12/04/2013 8:17:31 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Cronos

Ping.


2 posted on 12/04/2013 8:18:13 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Pan_Yan

Koranimals bring death an misery wherever they go.


3 posted on 12/04/2013 8:23:07 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Because their hearts (Cor) are Korrupt.


4 posted on 12/04/2013 8:25:03 AM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Pan_Yan

I’m of the mind that anywhere this happens (Muslims threatening Christians) we send in a quick team to completely kill and annhilate the Muslims, then quickly leave. They come back, we go back.

We have the tech and rapid response abilities to easily do this.

Just make it that clear. Perhaps after many times they will put two and two together that the helpless Christians in these villages have a consistent guardian angle.

It should be permanent US policy. No Nation building, no humanitarian efforts, just simple pest eradication. Like an exterminator.


5 posted on 12/04/2013 8:26:39 AM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (I don't even know what to say anymore...)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

Maybe obummer should visit and offer a plan..................LOL!


6 posted on 12/04/2013 8:30:56 AM PST by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Pan_Yan
"We live like animals here. No clean water. No food. No medicine. No salt. No soap," said Mareus Faiton-Haena...

Oh. Another Detroit story.

7 posted on 12/04/2013 8:31:38 AM PST by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

Sounds like we need Iron Man...


8 posted on 12/04/2013 8:32:09 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
Wouldn't implementing that policy right now be considered a coup?
9 posted on 12/04/2013 8:33:54 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

- The Harry S Truman solution:

- drop 2 nukes and have a cuppa java


11 posted on 12/04/2013 8:36:33 AM PST by devolve (- "He's (Obama) just 'too talented' to do what 'ordinary people' do." - "All this for a damn fag!" -)
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To: Pan_Yan
"We live like animals here. No clean water. No food. No medicine. No salt. No soap"

Thank goodness the taxpayers in the US provide for our own indigent.

12 posted on 12/04/2013 8:40:11 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Pan_Yan; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
No sweat...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

13 posted on 12/04/2013 8:50:02 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Pan_Yan

I’m probably being dense, but in what respect do you mean it would be a coup?


14 posted on 12/04/2013 8:50:20 AM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (I don't even know what to say anymore...)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

Wouldn’t the first target be somewhere between Maryland and Virginia?


15 posted on 12/04/2013 8:53:20 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
I’m of the mind that anywhere this happens (Muslims threatening Christians) we send in a quick team to completely kill and annhilate the Muslims, then quickly leave. They come back, we go back.

F Yeah!


16 posted on 12/04/2013 8:53:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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To: Pan_Yan

AH, HAHHAHHAHAHAHA.

Sorry I should have gotten that.


17 posted on 12/04/2013 8:55:15 AM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (I don't even know what to say anymore...)
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To: dfwgator

Perfect visual representation.


18 posted on 12/04/2013 8:55:39 AM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (I don't even know what to say anymore...)
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To: SkyPilot

I’d love to see that bunch stripped of their citizenship, shipped over to Africa and forced to live as real Africans. Worthless scum from the low end of the gene pool.


19 posted on 12/04/2013 9:09:05 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Pan_Yan

This would be a wet dream for obama.


20 posted on 12/04/2013 9:27:19 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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