Posted on 07/08/2014 6:41:40 AM PDT by markomalley
Rebel fighters and armed Muslim civilians have killed "many" people in an attack on a church compound in the Central African Republic where thousands of civilians had taken refuge, Catholic Church officials said.
Monday's attack in Bambari, 236 miles northeast of the capital Bangui, came just a day before French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was due to visit the town, where a grenade attack injured seven French soldiers last week.
Church officials said fighters from the Seleka rebel movement and armed civilians from the town's Muslim community entered St. Joseph's Cathedral around 3 pm. (1400 GMT).
"We don't have the exact death toll yet, but many people have been killed. As I'm speaking to you, they are still there," the Rev. Jesus Martial Dembele, vicar general for the archdiocese of Bangui, told Reuters.
Between 4,000 and 6,000 mainly Christian civilians live at the cathedral, church officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“To avoid clashes between groups that seek only hatred and vengeance, these groups must accept a peace process, accept a ceasefire,” Le Drian, the French foreign minister, who arrived in Bangui on Monday, said in reference to the worsening violence in Bambari.
Surrender Monkey. No, the solution is to exterminate or drive out the Muslims - every mother’s son and daughter of them.
And the perverts in the US news media yawn.
Waaay past time for a bunch of mosques to go up in flames?
RIP.
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