The French government is to blame for the ongoing carnage and ethnic cleansing in the Central African Republic (CAR), an analyst writes in a column for the Press TV website.
“The ethnic cleansing of an entire community has already happened, and for the French government to now say that it is taking remedial action is beneath contempt. France has already overseen the slaughter,” Finian Cunningham wrote on Thursday.
He said French officials had prepared the grounds for the wave of killings in the African state through their media announcements that CAR was on the brink of “genocide.”
Cunningham said Paris has fanned the flames of “sectarian fire” in Central Africa, adding that “now other people are being horribly burned.”
He said the crisis in the Central African Republic has spun out of control, forcing the French government to call on the UN and other European countries for troops’ deployment there.
“The hidden agenda for Paris has always been about securing the rich natural resources of this Central African country,” he said.
On Friday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said more than 130 children have been killed and mutilated in the country over past two months, some of them in horrific ways.
On February 12, the interim president of the Central African Republic, Catherine Samba-Panza, declared war against the Christian militia behind the “ethnic cleansing” campaign against Muslims in the country.
More than 1,000 people have been killed in the Central African Republic since last December, when Christian militia launched coordinated attacks against the mostly Muslim Seleka group, which toppled the government in March 2013.
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