Sunday, February 23, 2014

When a Muslim man is lynched in CAR, it is not a story with a headline in US media

 Violence: A Central African Army soldier stabs the man who was accused of joining the ousted Seleka rebel group
"A group of soldiers in the Central African Republic lynched a man they suspected was a rebel minutes after hearing the new president's promise to restore security at a ceremony to reinstate the divided country's armed forces.

About 20 uniformed soldiers accused a member of the crowd of having belonged to Seleka - the mostly Muslim rebel group that seized power in a coup last March, before stabbing him repeatedly until he was dead.

A soldier stamped on the lifeless body, which was then dragged nearly naked through the streets as residents looked on and took photographs."