Restoring Order in Central African Republic
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Last-Ditch Effort Emerges to Restore Order in Central African Republic
BANGUI, Central African Republic — By mid afternoon, a hot breeze blows down empty corridors of the mostly vacant national assembly building here. Hundreds of grim soldiers, their uniforms looted or hidden away, mass in civilian clothes after going AWOL for months. Around abandoned university buildings, idle students loiter, their classes long canceled. The state no longer exists in the Central African Republic. Civil servants do not go to their offices, taxes are not collected and all the schools are closed. There is no budget, no army, no police force, no president, no Parliament, no judges or jails, and at least a fifth of the population has fled. After nine months of violence and well over a thousand dead since early December alone, Christians and Muslims fear and attack one another. Neighbor has turned against neighbor, and every night there are killings.Now, an unlikely experiment in instant nation-building is underway: a vote for president. Inspired equally by desperation and pressure from abroad, a “national transition council” of 135 rebels, rivals, politicians and everyone in between is making a last-ditch lunge for order, hoping to choose a new leader for this fractured country within days.
I thought this post was really interesting because I noticed you posted it just a few days after I wrote a post about the tension between Muslims and Christians in Central African Republic. I also found it interesting how in your article it talks about both Christians and Muslims fearing each other while mine only talked about Christians being the instigators and the Muslims being the ones hiding in fear. This would most likely be the result of bias from the authors. It was also nice to see this and find out that they are making an effort to put their differences aside and create a better. more stable country.
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