Paris — Two leading rights groups are calling on the United Nations to send a peacekeeping mission to the Central African Republic, to help stop the spiralling sectarian violence. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International document horrific rights abuses in the impoverished African nation.
The reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch follow field visits by both rights groups to the Central African Republic, to document some of the sectarian violence first hand. Their findings are brutal and graphic. Amnesty's report focuses on the capital, Bangui. It describes, for example, how Christian anti-balaka militias went door-to-door, killing about 60 Muslim men.
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