On Wednesday, March 31, a group of UN experts condemned the “serious violations of human rights” committed by Russian paramilitaries who are said to be fighting alongside government forces that have been the target of a new uprising since December.
The UN expert group on mercenaries condemns the authorities’ increased use of private security companies in Bangui, which has been the target of a new uprising since December. But the spokesman for the Central African government, Ange Maxime Kazagui, refutes the use of private soldiers. The government spokesman assures that an official response will be given “in the coming days”.
We would have liked this expert group to be able to publish a press release mentioning all the abuses perpetrated by the CPC, by the armed groups that withdrew from the peace agreement and led mainly by foreigners and perhaps challenges or shortcomings such as our Central African Armed Forces and possibly their allies may have experienced, but I say again that this, it seems, is not on the agenda of this group of experts.
For his part, instead “Deputy and former presidential candidate Martin Ziguélétire” the alarm clock “about the behavior of foreign forces allied with the Central African Army in the ongoing counter-offensive against the rebels from the CPC, especially Russian forces. He says he is” very worried “about the “recurring” information he receives from representatives of his party (MLPC) in various cities in the country about possible “violations” and “human rights violations” when these forces retake cities that had fallen under rebel control.
At the request of RFI, Minusca had neither responded to the press release last night, nor did the Russian embassy in the country, which on Monday said it had only sent “instructors” to Bangui, “in the majority former Russian army officers”, who “do not participate in the battles “except” if they are directed “.
