Posted on 02/20/2014 6:20:19 AM PST by PapaBear3625
The anti-balaka have outgrown their name. These militias in the Central African Republic, once united under a moniker meaning “anti-machete” in the local Sango language, are exacting their own vicious revenge upon the mainly Muslim rebels who overthrew the government last March and waged months of terror against the Christian population. They are now accused of atrocities far worse than what first prompted them to take up arms.
An Amnesty International report on Feb. 12 said attacks on Muslims in January by anti-balaka militias, made up of Christians and animists, had amounted to “ethnic cleansing.” Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, has already opened a preliminary investigation into crimes against humanity, saying some “victims appeared to have been deliberately targeted on religious grounds.” A top U.N. official issued similar warnings during a recent visit to the ravaged capital, Bangui, telling reporters: “There is an ethnic-religious cleansing taking place. It must be stopped.”
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The head-chopping-happy moozlums are portrayed as “peaceful”. They are getting what they deserve for their long history of aggressively murdering others. They deserve to be dead in peace.
Who pays the piper calls the tune. Amnesty International and the UN aren’t about human rights. They’re all about anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and statism. In ecological terms they’re watermelons.
We know where Obama stands on this.
Yes, the Mohammedans peacefully lop-off heads and peacefully burn villages...in the name of peace. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
They ARE peaceful. Islam says peace will happen when there is absence of opposition to Islam. The jihadis are all energetically pursuing peace.
Wow. You consider those protesting in Kiev to be only “violent thugs who don’t seem to care about the rule of law or the civilization they’re destroying.”
I’ve seen no evidence of this, only of extreme government repression and some degree of protestor retaliation.
I guess the same applies to those at Tienanmen Square. Anybody who protests against tyrannical governments must be crushed to protect civilization.
This POV would have brought a screeching halt to the American Revolution, you known. OTOH, for the initially similar French Revolution this POV was exactly right.
Kind of makes you wonder who the major funders of Amnesty International are and if that just might effect their reports. The media always severs mammon.
These are not peaceful protestors we're seeing, burning down an historic city and using a truce as a way to extend the violence.
Didn't a majority vote for the government they have?
Not from reports. There was probable vote fraud and now illegal power grabbing by the President. Sorta on the same lines as what we have here.
I agree Ukraine is in a tough place.
I suspect from the perspective of the protesters, being gobbled up yet again by the Russian bear is a lot more problematic than enduring the soft embrace of Euro banksters.
Europeans, after all, have never killed many millions of Ukrainians. Russians have, within the last century.
Enemy of my enemy and all that.
When Time writes even one story about the Christian genocide in the Middle East, I will begin to care.
Love to see a “purge “ of them here too
UN Analysis:
Muslim atrocities = good.
Christian pushback = bad.
The Crusades were a mixed bag, but they were indeed a defensive war.
“ethnic cleansing” Um, no. Self defense.
Islam is a religion unless its really a criminal enterprise.
“The arrow that they intended for others has entered their own liver.”
Now that the CAR Christians are showing their teeth no one is going to bother their oil fields——they just have to dig in and continue to defend themselves.
Purge the Satanists.
The best way to end this is to ensure that the ‘anti-balaka’ group is well and properly armed. Sooner or later, the hostilities will diminish.
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