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December 1, 2013
The battle for Africa was raging on two fronts last night with fears of a genocide and horrific accounts of human rights breaches sweeping through its heartlands.
Mali and the Central African Republic have both been plunged into crisis by reprisal religious killings and reports of widespread executions, torture and rape.
In the Republic sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims is escalating so fast that there have been calls for a large-scale deployment of peacekeepers by the EU’s top humanitarian official.
Almost half a million people, a tenth of the country’s population, have fled since Muslim rebels ousted President Francois Bozize last spring.
Tit-for-tat murders are a daily threat, increasing fears of a full-scale civil war.
As many as 35,000 people are trying to avoid the violence by sheltering in a church compound the size of a football stadium in the town of Bossangoa.
In recent days leaders from both sides of the religious divide have tried to bring about a reconciliation but outside the compound the Muslim Seleka rebels are still a threat.
Portrait photographer Mathieu Marco gave a terrifying description of the violence being exacted by the rebels. Speaking from the entrance to the compound, Marco told how he escaped death when a Muslim militia commander stormed into his home by hiding in a shower.
The rebel screamed at Marco’s young son to reveal where he was hiding before walking back into the street and killing a 13-year-old neighbour.
“He killed him in cold blood, just like that. Pow! Pow!” said Marco.
He is desperate for intervention to end the bloodletting. “French soldiers or Americans or Asians…we just want peace.
“Seleka are just professional bandits. They have come here to plunder our nation. They must be chased away, that’s all.”
Outside the capital Bangui, Seleka violence has seen the rise of Christian militia known as the “anti-balaka”, meaning anti- machete.
This escalation only increases the endless cycle of attacks and reprisal killings.
EU aid chief Kristalina Georgieva warns that without a dramatic increase in the number of foreign peacekeepers the Central African Republic faces a Somalia-like state collapse and potential genocide.
