AU: CAR Anti-Balaka Leader Not Arrested
February 27, 2014
VOA News
Peacekeepers in the Central African Republic have retracted a report
that a leader of the anti-Balaka militia movement had been arrested.
The African Union mission in the C.A.R., known as MISCA, said
Wednesday that Patrick Edouard Ngaissona had been arrested by
authorities in the neighboring Republic of Congo. A MISCA spokesman,
Eloi Yao, now tells VOA's French to Africa Service, however, that
Congolese authorities arrested a different man with the same name as
the anti-Balaka leader.
Ngaissona has described himself as the political coordinator of the
anti-Balaka, who have driven tens of thousands of Muslims in the
C.A.R. from their homes and neighborhoods during the past few months.
Ngaissona and several other anti-Balaka commanders are on a list of
wanted persons by C.A.R. prosecutors. The transitional government is
weak, though, and appears to have little authority in Bangui or
elsewhere in the country.
The militias formed in response to the mostly Muslim Seleka rebels who
toppled the C.A.R.'s president a year ago and went on a nationwide
spree of killing and looting.
The group's name means "machete proof" or invincible.
U.N. officials and human rights groups have warned the militia are
carrying out a type of ethnic or sectarian cleansing, and have called
for the deployment of more troops to protect Muslim civilians and halt
rampant violence.
France has about 2,000 troops in the country, while the AU has about 5,000.
According to the U.N. refugee agency, more than 288,000 Central
Africans have fled to neighboring countries since violence began in
December 2012. Another 700,000 are displaced within the country.
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