1-Mar-17 World View -- Central African Republic war morphs from religious to ethnic war

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1-Mar-17 World View -- Central African Republic war morphs from religious to ethnic war

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1-Mar-17 World View -- Central African Republic war morphs from religious to ethnic war


United Nations peacekeeping force MINUSCA uses airstrikes to stop bloodbath in Bambari


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Central African Republic war morphs from religious to ethnic war
United Nations peacekeeping force MINUSCA uses airstrikes to stop bloodbath in Bambari


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Generational Dynamics, Central African Republic, CAR,
Bangui, Bria, Bambari, François Bozizé, Michel Djotodia,
Séléka, anti-Balaka, Fulani, Gula, Runga, MINUSCA, FPRC, UPC,
Popular Front for the Renaissance in the Central African Republic,
Union for Peace in the Central African Republic,
Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic,
Kongo-Wara Rebellion, War of the Hoe Handle,
Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan

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Re: 1-Mar-17 World View -- Central African Republic war morphs from religious to ethnic war

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It seems to me that the war was an ethnic war from the beginning, with nominal religious affiliation serving only as aligning factors for broad coalitions of ethnic militias. The difference here is that the ethnic militias are aligning based on occupational lines (farmer/herder) rather than religious (christian/muslim). This is neither more nor less ethnic than earlier tribal alignments.

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