A UN-backed courtroom within the Central African Republic stated it had charged ex-rebel chief Abdoulaye Hissene with crimes towards humanity and struggle crimes on Thursday.
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One of many poorest international locations on the planet, the CAR was plunged into bloody sectarian battle after Seleka rebels, a coalition of armed teams primarily composed of Muslims, ousted president Francois Bozize in early 2013.
Battle crimes
The Particular Prison Courtroom (SCC) handles instances regarding struggle crimes and crimes towards humanity relationship again to 2003.
Hissene, ex-military chief of the FPRC faction of the previous Seleka insurrection, has been held in detention after he was arrested on Monday, an SCC supply stated on situation of anonymity.
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In 2022, he introduced his departure from the armed motion throughout reconciliation talks initiated by President Faustin-Archange Touadera.
The courtroom stated it had charged Hissene with “a number of crimes towards humanity and struggle crimes dedicated on the territory of the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2017, in his capability as chief” of the FRPC.
He has confronted UN sanctions since 2017 for his involvement in “acts that undermine the peace, stability or safety of the CAR”.
He additionally confronted sanctions for “assaults towards UN missions or worldwide safety presences, together with MINUSCA, the European Union Missions and French operations which assist them,” the UN has stated.
It has additionally pointed to the FRPC chief’s hyperlinks with ex-militia chief Maxime Mokom.
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Mokom
Mokom’s militias, which referred to as themselves “anti-Balaka” — that means “anti-machete” — had been fashioned in response to the takeover of the capital, Bangui, by the Seleka.
He faces 20 counts of struggle crimes and crimes towards humanity for atrocities dedicated towards Muslim civilians within the CAR, a former French colony, by his self-proclaimed self-defence militias in 2013 and 2014.
The fees towards Mokom, introduced earlier than the Worldwide Prison Courtroom, included directing assaults towards civilians, homicide, rape, pillaging and destruction of property, in addition to assaults towards spiritual buildings together with mosques.
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