Around 40,000 people in the impoverished Central African Republic (CAR) have been forced to flee their homes because of summary executions and ethnic violence, a joint United Nations mission reported today, as the world body's top aid official warned of the appalling suffering from these "egregious violations of human rights."
For fear of reprisals linked to the ongoing conflict between Government Security Forces and the armed opposition, the entire populations of some centres in the north and northeast of the strife-torn country have left their homes, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
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