“At least 34 people from several villages were killed between August 13 and 15 in the M’bres region by armed men identified by inhabitants as ex-Seleka,” an officer in the African peacekeeping force, MISCA, told the AFP news agency on the same day.
The officer said the fleeing residents spoke of the attackers “firing on their victims at point-blank range and chasing them into the bush and some of the victims died by hanging, others were beaten or tortured to death”.
Continue..One resident who fled, Achille Ketegaza, confirmed that account to AFP, saying: “The attackers arrived by foot and on motorbikes. They fired point-blank at anybody they encountered. They said they were going to ‘clean’ eight villages between M’bres, Ndele and Bakala before September 15.” A UN force is to be deployed to the country on September 15.
CAR has been torn apart by ethnic and religious violence since the Seleka, an alliance of mostly Muslim groups, seized power in March 2013. Their leader, Michel Djotodia, was president for nine months before having to step down under strong international pressure after many Seleka fighters refused to disband and carried out atrocities against civilians.
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