CAR conflict: Unicef says children ‘beheaded’ in Bangui

People fleeing Bangui sit in a truck (30 December 2013)

More needs to be done to protect children, Unicef says

(SOURCE) At least two children have been beheaded in the Central African Republic’s capital as violence sinks to a “vicious new low”, the UN has said.

About 16 children had been killed in Bangui since 5 December and an increasing number of them are being recruited into armed groups, it added.

The violence has mostly pitted Christian and Muslim militias against each other.

The UN said children were being directly targeted in revenge attacks.

The CAR is ruled by Muslim ex-rebel leader Michel Djotodia, who seized power in March forcing then-President Francois Bozize, who came from the majority Christian population, to flee into exile.

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1 thought on “CAR conflict: Unicef says children ‘beheaded’ in Bangui

  1. More bloodguilt upon this evil stained world. May those innocent children be beholding the face of Jesus in heaven for they are in a far better place. It may be that God in His soverign mercies, has spared them further abuse and wicked violence on this earth.

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