President Faustin-Archange Touadera had requested at the end of 2020 the intervention of Russia to push back a rebel offensive that threatened his regime and the capital, Bangui.
New accusation against the Russian private paramilitary company Wagner in the Central African Republic. In its latest report released on Tuesday, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch accused Wagner mercenaries of summarily executing, torturing, beating civilians in February 2019 and November 2021 in that country.
“The most serious crime documented was a mass summary execution on July 28, 2021, in the north of the town of Bossangoa in broad daylight and against people who were unarmed. We documented about ten deaths, so it could be a war crime,” said Lewis Mudge, Central Africa director for Human Rights Watch, interviewed by RFI.
He added: “apart from that, we have documented several cases of detention, torture done in Alindao, in Basse-Kotto, in a military camp that was run by the Russians, armed, moving around with the national forces.”
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