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   (CNN) -- Attempts to purge Muslims from parts of the war-torn   
   Central African Republic have prompted "a Muslim exodus of   
   historic proportions," rights group Amnesty International warned   
   Wednesday.   
      
   International peacekeepers have "failed to prevent the ethnic   
   cleansing of Muslim civilians in the western part of the Central   
   African Republic," the group said.   
      
   Another rights group, Human Rights Watch, also warned Wednesday   
   that the country's minority Muslim population is "being targeted   
   in a relentless wave of coordinated violence that is forcing   
   entire communities to leave the country."   
      
   The Central African Republic, a former French colony, was   
   plunged into chaos last year after a coalition of mostly Muslim   
   rebels dubbed Seleka ousted President Francois Bozize.   
      
   They have since been forced out of power, but Christian   
   militias, known as the anti-balaka, which translates as "anti-   
   machete," have been allowed to fill the power vacuum, Amnesty   
   International said, with dire consequences for Muslim civilians.   
      
   "Anti-balaka militias are carrying out violent attacks in an   
   effort to ethnically cleanse Muslims in the Central African   
   Republic," said Joanne Mariner, senior crisis response adviser   
   at Amnesty International.   
      
   "The result is a Muslim exodus of historic proportions."   
      
   The Amnesty International report said international peacekeepers   
   in the country must do more to protect Muslim communities and   
   rein in the anti-balaka militias. There are about 1,600 French   
   troops on the ground, alongside about 6,000 soldiers from an   
   African Union-led peacekeeping force, known as MISCA.   
      
   Forcible expulsion   
      
   The rights group also said the backlash against Muslim civilians   
   was foreseeable -- and should have been prevented.   
      
   "In power for nearly 10 months, the Seleka were responsible for   
   massacres, extrajudicial executions, rape, torture, and looting,   
   as well as massive burning and destruction of Christian   
   villages," it said.   
      
   "As the Seleka withdrew, the international forces allowed the   
   anti-balaka militias to take control of town after town. The   
   resulting violence and forcible expulsion of Muslim communities   
   were predictable."   
      
   For its report, Amnesty International interviewed more than 100   
   people who witnessed attacks against Muslims firsthand.   
      
   The worst violence documented was in the northern town of   
   Bossemptele, where at least 100 Muslims were killed in January,   
   it said. Among the dead were women and old men, including an   
   imam in his mid-70s.   
      
   Other northwestern towns where Muslims communities have been   
   attacked include Bouali, Boyali and Baoro, it said.   
      
   The spiraling ethnic violence in the Central African Republic   
   has led some observers to fear another genocide like that seen   
   in Rwanda nearly 20 years ago.   
      
   Antonio Guterres, head of the U.N. refugee agency, said he has   
   "witnessed in the Central African Republic a humanitarian   
   catastrophe of unspeakable proportions. Massive ethno-religious   
   cleansing is continuing."   
      
   He cited "indiscriminate killings and massacres" and "shocking   
   barbarity, brutality and inhumanity." He said he's "deeply   
   distressed that nearly half a million Central Africans have been   
   newly displaced since December alone. In all, 2.5 millions are   
   in desperate need."   
      
   He said the country is "falling through the cracks of   
   international attention" and that can't be permitted.   
      
   "Tens of thousands of people are fleeing the country for their   
   safety, many are trapped with nowhere to go. In Bangui alone,   
   thousands of people are in ghettos in grave conditions," he said   
   in a statement.   
      
   He said the international community must act by deploying forces   
   on the ground.   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/world/africa/central-african-   
   republic-muslims/   
      
   We don't have to do shit about a bunch of Muslim savages   
   receiving their just due.   
      
       
      
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