Central African Republic is now a failed state. The Muslim rebels (Muslims make up 15% of the population) toppled the corrupt government with help from a lot of foreign fighters from Chad and Sudan. The new "president" disbanded the rebels so they headed out into the countryside and began mass murdering Christian villages. The locals and former government supporters have formed militias to protect themselves and retaliate.
We have/had 100 special forces operators in CAR hunting the Lord's Resistance Army. The Pentagon has been very mum about them since the government fell back in March. France has a lot of interest in the mineral wealth of this country, thus their heavy troop presence. It wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on this one in case we get dragged into it somehow.
1 posted on
11/22/2013 7:49:06 PM PST by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Thanks for the article. Hope there is not a bloodbath, I know I’ve seen this place on a map, can’t say much more.
2 posted on
11/22/2013 7:52:51 PM PST by
BeadCounter
(Scott Walker: "Unintimidated")
To: Pan_Yan
Looks like the 13th DBLE is fixin’ to saddle up.
3 posted on
11/22/2013 7:52:52 PM PST by
Ax
To: Pan_Yan
Another massacre started by Muslims for the media to ignore.
4 posted on
11/22/2013 7:58:10 PM PST by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Pan_Yan
It wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on this per chicom media briefs reconned by the japs koreans viets i mean our SE Asian allies
To: Pan_Yan
France Leads the Way....America follows...
8 posted on
11/22/2013 8:12:28 PM PST by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Pan_Yan
So so sad. America playing second fiddle to France.
We used to make fun of the French for only using their rifles to hold up white flags.
So if they are now a world leader, just what does that make us?
And the low information crowd could care less that the world is falling apart all around us, and that we are falling apart from within.
I must give special thanks to the Democrat party.
15 posted on
11/23/2013 6:35:34 AM PST by
redfreedom
(All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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