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On 13 January more than 100 people were killed by Anti-balaka in Bossemptélé massacre. [23] In 2014, the corpse of Camille Lepage, a missing French photojournalist, was found by French soldiers in a truck used by Anti-Balaka members. [24] On 24 June 100 Anti-balaka fighters attacked Bambari. 46 people were killed and 28 wounded. [25]
An internal conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) started essentially on 13 April 2013, when the government of President Michel Djotodia officially took over. The fighting was between the government of the Central African Republic's former Séléka coalition of rebel groups, who are mainly from the Muslim minority, and the mainly Christian anti-balaka coalition.
In western CAR, another rebel group, with no known links to Séléka or Anti-balaka, called "Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation" (3R) formed in 2015 reportedly by Sidiki Abass, [173] claiming to be protecting Muslim Fulani people from an Anti-balaka militia led by Abbas Rafal.
Between 200 and 400 armed attackers included besides UPC fighters local militia called "mujahedin" consisting of Alindao's Muslim youth. Around 12 Anti-balaka fighters armed with home-made firearms managed to resist the attack until they ran out of ammunition and were forces to withdraw by 10:00 hour allowing attackers to overrun the camp. [1]
With international forces largely absent, the next day Anti-balaka fighters attacked the city. The few armed Muslims and Séléka fighters who remained in the city tried to resist but were defeated. Anti-balaka then attacked Muslim civilians killing some of them. Some Muslims fled the city, while some took refuge at local Catholic mission.
[5] [6] Their original enemy was the rebel group Anti-balaka, from whom they captured the village of Bocaranga in 2017 before transferring it to the Central African Armed Forces in January 2019. [7] 3R began to escalate their operations later in 2019.
Starting in November 2016, FPRC and MPC [36] allied with their former enemy, the Anti-balaka, and attacked UPC. [37] [38] Most of the fighting is in the centrally located Ouaka prefecture, which has the country's second largest city Bambari, because of its strategic location between the Muslim and Christian regions of the country and its wealth ...
Abdoulaye Hissène, one of rebel leaders who managed to successfully escape Bangui. In the late evening of 12 August 2016, a convoy of seven vehicles (four pick-ups, two cars and his own company vehicle [2]), with 35 heavily armed men from the PK5 neighbourhood in Bangui's 3rd district and the BSS camp aboard, left Bangui.