AT THE BLINK OF GENOCIDE

The Central African Republic (CAR; is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the northeast, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi) and has an estimated population of about 4.4 million as of 2008. The capital is Bangui.

Presently the country is at a blink of genocide as violence continues to erupt in the various parts of the country. In this exclusive report from Press TV (http://www.presstv.com/Program/336945.html ), we  take an exclusive look at the war torn country

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has rejected warnings that the strife-torn country may be headed for genocide. 

CAR Foreign Minister Leonie Bang Bothy said in an interview with a local radio on Saturday that such warnings would not do anything to help the situation in the country and could have an opposite effect.

In an attempt to stop the surge of armed crime, CAR President Michel Djotodia, former Seleka rebel leader, renewed a curfew on Bangui on Friday.

On September 13, Djotodia dissolved the Seleka rebel coalition, which had brought him to power. Some of the rebels later joined the country’s regular army while some defied.

The Seleka rebels, who launched an offensive against the CAR government in December 2012 and finally ousted then President Francois Bozizé in March, have been accused of killing, looting, and raping across the country.
A recent UN report blamed the Seleka fighters for much of the chaos in the country, saying, “uncontrolled Seleka elements and unidentified armed groups” in the country committed "arbitrary arrests and detention, sexual violence against women and children, torture, rape, targeted killings, recruitment of child soldiers and attacks."