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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released a report this month saying that “the frequency and brutality of attacks against communities have surged to levels last seen in 2014. Entire towns have been emptied, houses burnt down and women and children brutally killed.”
The terrifying violence by armed militias in the CAR started in 2012 and intensified when a mostly Muslim rebel group, the Seleka, overthrew President François Bozize in 2013. Atrocities committed by the Seleka gave rise to a predominantly Christian group to counter it, the anti-Balaka, which similarly committed untold human rights abuses. Sectarian attacks by each group against each other and against innocent civilians devastated the country.
