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The Death of a Warlord in the Central African Republic
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The death of one of the most brutal warlords in the Central African Republic was confirmed earlier this month. Sidiki Abbas, the president and founder of Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation, or 3R, leaves a legacy of ruthless violence and abuse in the northwestern Ouham Pendé province. Over the past six years, I interviewed scores of victims and survivors of 3R attacks who described being raped, seeing their loved ones shot down, or watching their homes destroyed.
The 3R group emerged in late 2015 asserting that they were needed to protect the minority Peuhl population from attacks by anti-balaka militia who were targeting Muslims. Despite his role in widespread atrocities, including war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, in March 2019 Abbas was named a special military adviser to the prime minister’s office as a concession under a peace accord signed a month earlier in Khartoum, Sudan.
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The Unity for Peace in Central Africa said in a statement it will quit a rebel coalition aiming to unseat President Faustin Archange Touadera.
Touadera was reelected with barely one in three voters able to cast their ballot because rebel groups control most of the country.
The UPC announcement came just days after another powerful group in the CPC announced that its chief had died from wounds suffered during an attack.
The most powerful of the Central African Republic s armed groups said in a statement Monday it will quit a rebel coalition aiming to unseat President Faustin Archange Touadera.
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Peacekeepers from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) patrol the streets a few hours after the attacks in Begoua, a northern district of Bangui, Central Africa Republic, 13 January 2021. - Reuters
A Central African Republic militia leader blacklisted by the United States and the UN for human rights abuses including rape and torture has died from injuries he sustained in November, his armed group said on Friday.
Sidiki Abass, leader of the Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation or 3R armed group, died on March 25 at a health centre in Kambakota, around 320 km north of the capital Bangui, according to a statement signed by “General Bobbo”, who described himself as the new leader of the rebel force.