Central African Republic’s Bangui Out of Control, MSF Says -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Violence in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, is “out of control,” with fighting between Christians and Muslims resulting in lynchings and machete attacks, Medecins Sans Frontieres said.
Since early December teams working in several medical projects in Bangui have treated more than 1,000 victims of violence, the medical humanitarian organization founded in France in 1971 and known as MSF, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
“People are coming in with machete wounds to the head, hands and arms,” Laurent Sury, emergency coordinator of MSF in Bangui, said in the statement. “We’ve also seen people who have been stabbed, sometimes multiple times, in the abdomen, and people who have either been tortured or brutally beaten. For the most part, these are young men.”
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