dagblog - Comments for "UN expert: C. African Republic risks genocide"

Social Media Dispatches:

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 04:06:02 +0000

In reply to UN expert: C. African Republic risks genocide

Social Media Dispatches: Death and Destruction in Central African Republic
By Christine Hauser, The Lede @ nytimes.com, Feb. 11, 2014
Witnesses have been documenting the violence in the Central African Republic over the past few days, with relentless slaughter and traces of entire communities wiped out as thousands of Muslims fled their homes to escape retaliatory attacks.

The killings gained pace against Muslims seen as supporting a Muslim rebel group that seized power last year and ruled through January and was widely blamed for atrocities on Christians.

The emergency director of Human Rights Watch, Peter Bouckaert, has been tracking the violence on the ground, sending out a constant stream of updates on his Twitter account, @bouckap, which reads like a narrative of a dying nation [....]

For US forces, delivering

artappraiser — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:50:18 +0000

In reply to UN expert: C. African Republic risks genocide

For US forces, delivering peacekeepers to the Central African Republic is no easy task
By Jon Harper, Stars and Stripes, Jan. 22, 2014

WASHINGTON — Landing a C-17 cargo aircraft at the airfield in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, is like landing at any airport — except for the fact that the airfield is surrounded by smoke, the radar system on the ground is weak, control tower operators are difficult to communicate with, the tarmac is short, and Internally Displaced Persons are milling about near the runway.

But putting wheels down in Bangui is only one part of a complex joint U.S. and international mission to bring peace to the CAR.

U.S. involvement started with a phone call from French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. [....]

This is very bad news.

Resistance — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:51:11 +0000

In reply to UN expert: C. African Republic risks genocide

This is very bad news.

Thinking about it; somebody better warn rmrd0000. to ignore this bad news. Maybe for his benefit you could provide only the Good news?