France says might up CAR troops

November 22nd, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

On Thursday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described the CAR as a country “on the verge of genocide,” saying “France, CAR’s neighbours and the international community are worried” about the unrst in the country.

“The United Nations will give permission to African forces, the African Union and France to intervene,” he added.

French diplomatic sources have also said that Paris would consider ramping up numbers to between 700 and 1,200 if needed.

Parsi has about 400 troops in the CAR, deployed mainly in the capital city of Bangui.

The United Nations is mulling whether to send thousands of peacekeepers to the mineral-rich but poor country which has been torn by strife since a March coup.

There is now a 2,500-strong regional peacekeeping force in the CAR. The African Union is set to take charge of the force next month. The force is due to expand to 3,500 soldiers.

On Monday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned about further deterioration in the security situation in the CAR, saying up to 9,000 peacekeepers could be needed to restore stability.

“The population lives in fear,” Ban said in a report which calls on the UN Security Council to act urgently on the crisis.

“The increasing attacks and indiscriminate retaliations have created a climate of deep suspicion between Christians and Muslims in some areas of the country,” the UN chief said.

“Further manipulation of these fears might well lead to uncontrollable sectarian violence with untold consequences,” he added.

A coalition of rebels, known as Seleka, launched an offensive against the CAR government in December 2012 and finally ousted then president Francois Bozizé in March. The rebels have been accused of killing, looting, and raping across the country.

The UN leader said the Security Council should consider “sanctions” against perpetrators of mass rapes and killings already carried out.

“There is an urgent and growing need to address the crisis before it spirals out of control,” Ban warned the council, noting that a failure to act now would mean a future intervention would be “more complex and costly.”

The Security Council must act “in a manner commensurate with the complexity of the crisis and the desperate protection needs of the population,” he pointed out.

On September 13, CAR President Michel Djotodia dissolved the Seleka rebel coalition, which had brought him to power. Some of the rebels later joined the country’s regular army while some defied.

A recent UN report blamed the Seleka fighters for much of the chaos in the country, saying, “uncontrolled Seleka elements and unidentified armed groups” in the country committed “arbitrary arrests and detention, sexual violence against women and children, torture, rape, targeted killings, recruitment of child soldiers, and attacks.”

In July, the International Federation for Human Rights said at least 400 murders by Seleka-affiliated groups had been documented since March.

There are many mineral resources, including gold and diamond, in the Central African Republic. However, the country is extremely poor and has faced a series of rebellions and coups since it gained independence in 1960.

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