BANGUI: The UN warned yesterday that bloodshed in the Central African Republic could turn into a genocide as horrors continue to unfold in the country where parliament is preparing to choose a new leader.
Violence in the country has not let up despite the resignation last week of strongman Michel Djotodia under intense regional pressure, and at least seven more people were killed in the capital overnight.
The violence “has all the elements that we have seen elsewhere in places like Rwanda, Bosnia. The elements are there for a genocide, there is no question about that,” UN humanitarian operations director John Ging told reporters in Geneva. “Atrocities are being committed on an ongoing basis, (and) fear is consuming the minds of an entire population, wherever you might go,” Ging said. AFP reporters yesterday saw the bodies of three people, including a teenage boy, killed by bullets in a city mosque, while the country’s Red Cross office said it had collected the corpses of four men killed by machete. AFP
