{"id":3457,"date":"2014-03-09T07:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T07:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2014-03-09T07:04:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T07:04:59","slug":"muslims-cleansed-from-car-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/03\/09\/3457\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims Cleansed From CAR: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/muslims-Cleansed-From-CAR-UN.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Top UN official for refugees warned that entire Muslim populations from western parts of Central African Republic have been cleansed by Christian militias, sending an emotional appeal to the UN Security Council to stop the deadly conflict, France 24 reported on Friday, March 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSince early December we have effectively witnessed a &#8216;cleansing&#8217; of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR,\u201d Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a meeting of the 15-nation UN Security Council on Thursday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over the past weeks, thousands of terrified civilian Muslims fled for their lives to escape killings, looting and harassment by armed Christian militias.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their flight follows months of escalating attacks on Muslims in the strife-torn republic.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Going from door to door, anti-Balaka Christian militias have raided Muslim homes, killing children and women, looting and vandalizing properties, the UN report revealed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deployed to cripple the ongoing fighting in CAR, the French peacekeeping forces have disarmed the ex-Seleka rebels, allowing Christian militias to retaliate from the disarmed Muslim community.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Guterres, who recently travelled to the country, told the council he does \u201cnot remember any visit in my eight-year tenure that caused me more anguish\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI was deeply shocked by the barbarity, brutality and inhumanity that have characterized the violence in this country,\u201d he added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His speech at the UN Security Council comes as the council considers a proposal for a nearly 12,000-strong peacekeeping force, which will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Due to current funding problems, the UN forces is not expected in CAR before late summer.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cJust last week, there were about 15,000 people trapped in 18 locations in western CAR, surrounded by anti-Balaka elements and at very high risk of attack,\u201d Guterres said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cInternational forces are present in some of these sites, but if more security is not made available immediately, many of these civilians risk being killed right before our eyes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe demon of religious cleansing must be stopped \u2013 now,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Nation Breakdown<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, who has also recently travelled to CAR, warned that violence has totally broken down CAR.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe violence has led to the total breakdown of the state, locally and nationally,\u201d he was quoted by France 24.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amos told the council that there are more than 650,000 people internally displaced in CAR due to the conflict, over 232,000 in the capital Bangui alone, and that the government \u201chas no capacity to stop the spiral of violence\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UN peacekeeping chief Herv\u00e9 Ladsous called for urgently sending \u201crapid and generous financial support\u201d to MISCA \u2013 the 6,000-strong African Union force already in Central Africa.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe state has virtually no capacity to manage the massive array of threats it is facing,\u201d Ladsous said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere is no national army and the remnants of the police and gendarmerie lack the basic equipment and means to exercise their duties, while state administration is largely absent.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CAR, a mineral-rich, landlocked country, descended into anarchy in March of last year when Seleka rebels ousted Fran\u00e7ois Bozize, a 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