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JI7

(89,250 posts)
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 03:42 PM Dec 2013

Central African Republic: Children Beheaded - Unicef

Source: all africa

The United Nations says at least two children have been beheaded in the Central African Republic. Fighting between Christians and Muslims intensified in the country in early December.

The UN agency for children said on Monday that "unprecedented" levels of violence were being committed against minors, with one of the beheaded children also having been mutilated.

"More and more children are being recruited into armed groups, and they are also being directly targeted in atrocious revenge attacks," UNICEF representative in Central Africa Souleymasne Diabate said, calling for such violence to stop immediately."Targeted attacks against children are a violation of international humanitarian and human rights law."

French and African troops are struggling to contain the fighting between the majority Christians and minority Muslims in the CAR. The clashes followed a coup in March by mostly Muslim Seleka rebels, who installed Michel Djotodia as president.

Read more: http://allafrica.com/stories/201312310119.html

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Central African Republic: Children Beheaded - Unicef (Original Post) JI7 Dec 2013 OP
Any person willing to cut off a child's head needs to be exterminated DisgustipatedinCA Dec 2013 #1
k&r +1,000,000,000,000,000 SummerSnow Dec 2013 #2
+200000000 PassingFair Dec 2013 #3
Agreed. KansDem Dec 2013 #4
Allow me to provide the rationale of the mindset. maxsolomon Dec 2013 #6
Men atreides1 Dec 2013 #7
The CAR has a history of mistreating children. . . BigDemVoter Dec 2013 #5
 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
1. Any person willing to cut off a child's head needs to be exterminated
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 03:51 PM
Dec 2013

And in case that's not clear, I mean executed, killed, head blown off, no longer existing on the planet.


Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying
-Iain Banks

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
4. Agreed.
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:43 PM
Dec 2013
The UN agency for children said on Monday that "unprecedented" levels of violence were being committed against minors, with one of the beheaded children also having been mutilated.


I just don't understand this mindset...

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
6. Allow me to provide the rationale of the mindset.
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 06:14 PM
Dec 2013

Courtesy of Francis Ford Coppola:

KURTZ
I remember when I was with Special
Forces. Seems a thousand centuries
ago. We went into a camp to
inoculate some children. We'd
left the camp after we had
inoculated the children for polio.
And this old man came running after
us, and he was crying. He couldn't
say. We went back there, and they
had come and hacked off every
inoculated arm. They they were,
in a pile. A pile of little arms.
And, I remember, I cried, I wept
like some grandmother. I wanted
to tear my teeth out. I didn't
know what I wanted to do. And I
want to remember it. I never want
to forget it. I never want to
forget it. And then I realized,
like I was shot, like I was shot
with a diamond bullet through my
forehead. And I thought, My God,
the genius of that! The genius.
The will to do that. Perfect,
genuine, complete, crystalline,
pure. And then I realized, they
were stronger than we. Because
they could stand it. These were
not monsters. These were men,
strained cadres. These men who
fought with their hearts, who have
families, who have children, who
are filled with love...that they
had the strength, the strength to
do that. If I had ten divisions
of those men, then our troubles
here would be over very quickly.
You have to have men who are moral,
and at the same time, who are able
to utilize their primordial
instincts to kill without feeling,
without passion. Without judgment.
Without Judgment. Because it's
judgment that defeats us.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)
5. The CAR has a history of mistreating children. . .
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 05:32 PM
Dec 2013

The self-crowned "Emperor" Bokassa was accused of having eaten scores of school children in the 1970s. In fact, rumor had it that some of these same children were unknowingly fed to President Giscard d'Estaing on a state visit to the CAR during a "state banquet." The rumors were never substantiated, but they have never ceased.

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