The United Nations’ top genocide official said on Friday he had reports that militia fighters in Central African Republic hunted down and massacred members of the Fulani ethnic group during violence that killed 85 civilians this week. Clashes erupted on Monday in Bria, a town about 600 km north-east of the capital Bangui, between rival rebel groups the Popular Front for the Renaissance of Central African Republic (FPRC) and the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC). Civilians killed in two days of fighting in Central African Republic Read moreFPRC fighters also entered hospital buildings and prevented wounded Fulani from receiving medical treatment. In addition to the dead, another 76 people were wounded and nearly 11,000 displaced by the violence, Dieng said. Thousands were killed in the ensuing ethnic cleansing which led to the de facto partition of Central African Republic into a Muslim north and Christian south.

Source: The Guardian November 26, 2016 05:03 UTC