إفريقيا الوسطى: نزوح جماعي وفشل قوات حفظ السلام في حماية المسلمين

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكدت منظمة العفو الدولية أن محاولات التخلص من المسلمين بجمهورية "إفريقيا الوسطى" على يد المليشيات النصرانية المسلحة - دفعت لوقوع نزوح جماعي تاريخي لعشرات الآلاف من المسلمين، والذي يصاحب وقوعهم ضحية لأعمال عنف منظمة لدفع المسلمين لترك البلاد بالقوة.

وقد أكد "أنتونيو جوترز" - رئيس وكالة الأمم المتحدة للاجئين، فيما نقلته شبكة "سي إن إن" - أنه شاهد على كارثة إنسانية في الجمهورية الإفريقية؛ حيث يتعرض المسلمون للقتل بوحشية وعنف، يشمل الأطفال والنساء والمسنين العُزَّل، إضافة إلى ارتفاع وحِدة نبرة التهديد والوعيد؛ حيث تصر مليشيات النصارى على القضاء على المسلمين؛ مما دفع المنظمات الحقوقية والطبية لدعوة المجتمع الدولي للتدخل بقوة على الأرض، والتحذير من كارثة إنسانية أبشع في الأيام القادمة، مع تجدُّد الاعتداءات وارتفاع حِدة أعمال العنف؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Attempts to purge Muslims from parts of the war-torn Central African Republic have prompted "a Muslim exodus of historic proportions," rights group Amnesty International warned Wednesday.

International peacekeepers have "failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslim civilians in the western part of the Central African Republic," the group said.

Another rights group, Human Rights Watch, also warned Wednesday that the country's minority Muslim population is "being targeted in a relentless wave of coordinated violence that is forcing entire communities to leave the country."

The Central African Republic, a former French colony, was plunged into chaos last year after a coalition of mostly Muslim rebels dubbed Seleka ousted President Francois Bozize.

They have since been forced out of power, but Christian militias, known as the anti-balaka, which translates as "anti-machete," have been allowed to fill the power vacuum, Amnesty International said, with dire consequences for Muslim civilians.

The worst violence documented was in the northern town of Bossemptele, where at least 100 Muslims were killed in January, it said. Among the dead were women and old men, including an imam in his mid-70s.

Other northwestern towns where Muslims communities have been attacked include Bouali, Boyali and Baoro, it said.

The spiraling ethnic violence in the Central African Republic has led some observers to fear another genocide like that seen in Rwanda nearly 20 years ago.

Antonio Guterres, head of the U.N. refugee agency, said he has "witnessed in the Central African Republic a humanitarian catastrophe of unspeakable proportions. Massive ethno-religious cleansing is continuing."

He cited "indiscriminate killings and massacres" and "shocking barbarity, brutality and inhumanity." He said he's "deeply distressed that nearly half a million Central Africans have been newly displaced since December alone. In all, 2.5 mi