Central African Republic (CAR) conflict.

REPORTAGE | Centrafrique: à Bossambélé avec les soldats français

 Centrafrique: à Bossambélé avec les soldats français

 

 

Selon Amnesty international, les dernières violences inter-religieuses ont provoqué la mort de près d’un millier de personnes depuis le début de ce mois de décembre en Centrafrique. La plupart des victimes ont été tuées à Bangui et dans la région de Bossangoa dans le nord-ouest du pays où se rend un convoi logistique de l’armée française. Avec à son bord deux de nos envoyés spéciaux, Jérôme Jadot et Gilles Gallinaro.

According to Amnesty Intl, the recent inter-religious violence has caused the death of close to 1,000 people since the beginning of December in the CAR. Most of the victims were killed in Bangui, the capital, and in the region of Bossangoa in the north-west of the country where a French military logistic convoy arrived. With them are two special envoys, Jerome Jadot and Gilles Gallinaro.

 

La “tension est fortement retombée” en Centrafrique, après les violences de ces deux dernières semaines, assure le chef du dispositif militaire français dans ce pays, le général Francisco Soriano, de passage dans la localité de Bossangoa, l’un des épicentres des violences entre chrétiens et musulmans dans le nord-ouest du pays.  Bossangoa où se rendent  les envoyés spéciaux de France Info, Jérôme Jadot et Gilles Gallinaro, en compagnie d’un convoi logistique de l’armée française. Ils ont fait étape cette nuit à Bossambélé à 170 km au nord de Bangui. Une ville où aucune force internationale n’est présente et où le désarmement n’a pas lieu. A l’entrée de la ville ce sont des miliciens de la Séléka qui tiennent le check-point. Pour certains, Kalachnikov en bandoulière. Mais les militaires français ne vont pas les désarmer.

The “tension in falling rapidly” in the CAR, after the violence of the last two weeks, affirmed the chief of French military set-up in the country, Gen. Francisco Soriano, on his way through the area of Bossangoa, one of the epicentres of the violence between Christians and Muslims in the NW of the country. Bossangoa is where the France Info special envoys Jérôme Jadot and Gilles Gallinaro, are accompanying the French army unit. They will spend the night at a stage in Bossambélé, 170 kms north of Bangui. This town has no international force present and no militia disarmament has taken place. On entering the town the Seleka militias are manning the check-point. For some, Kalachnikovs are slung over their shoulders (bandouliere). But the French military did not disarm them.

Selon Amnesty International, les représailles “à grande échelle, contre les chrétiens” menées par les forces de l’ex-Séléka à Bangui ont entraîné la mort de “près de 1.000 hommes en deux jours”.  Mais l’organisation assure que des “crimes de guerre et des crimes contre l’humanité sont commises par les deux parties en conflit

According to Amnesty Intl, the repisals ” on a grand scale, against the Christians” imposed by the forces of the ex-Seleka in Bangui led to the death of “close to 1,000 men in two days”. But the organisation affirmed that “war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed by both parties to the conflict”.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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