'Ethnic Cleansing' of Muslims in CAR, UN Warns
- Publisher:
- Voice of America
- Publication Date:
- 14 February 2014
- Tags:
- Central African Republic, Conflict, Peace and Security
The United Nations and international human rights groups say militias in the Central African Republic, known as the anti-Balaka, are carrying out an "ethnic cleansing" of the country's Muslim minority. Muslims are being targeted as payback for abuses committed by the recently ousted Seleka rebel coalition. VOA's Anne Look was in the western town of Boali, where Muslim residents have been living in a church for protection, for the past month.
