Peacekeepers intruding in the lynching of a Hijri in Bangui

Rwandan peacekeepers belonging to dubbed Misca had to intervene, this Sunday in Bangui to stop the lynching of a man who just lying prostrate in the middle of a street in the capital of the Central African Republic (RCA). The victim was an alleged Islamist, who, during the weekend, have killed some Christians, which have provoked a revenge of the militias Anti-Balaka the way law of retaliation, more popular with the words "eye for eye, tooth for a tooth."

"During the night he killed five people. Morning came and killed our sister. That's why we complain to the fifth district ("arrondissment", Division of the municipality similar to junta de freguesia), but we haven't received any reinforcements. This morning, he came back again and shot at us. That's why we attacked his house and burned everything, "explained one of the elements of the Christian militias who participated in the alleged retaliation.

This was another weekend of violence and looting in the capital of the Central African Republic. At least 11 people have died, among them two Muslims, who were lynched, and still a Central African legislature, which, according to the organization Human Rights Watch (tr.: Observation of human rights), was killed by two assailants on a motorcycle after being sentenced on Saturday, violence against Muslims.

Ethnic and inter-religious violence doesn't give truce in Central African Republic, where the United Nations balance the clashes between Islamist militias and the Anti-Christian Séléka Balaka points to more than 2,000 deaths since March last year, after the coup that put him in power of a Muslim Government RCA despite a Christian majority in the population.

An investigation was, however, open to investigate the allegation of war crimes at the RCA, where many Islamic groups have been trying to escape in recent weeks. Data from Médecins sans Frontières, points to more than 30 thousand Center-Africans who have sought refuge in neighbouring Chad and other 10 thousand in Cameroon.

The peace corps, which gather about 5 thousand elements of Misca, African Union troops, and about 1600 French, have been unable to control the violence. Among the many ongoing operations by the military of the United Nations is the destruction of confiscated weapons to militias Central African rivals.

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