The conflict in the Central African Republic that raged for a number of years early this millennium is one of those that the Western press rarely saw fit to mention. Now the International Criminal Court, you know that court that the US says isn't good enough for its citizens, is to launch an investigation into possible war crimes. According to one of the Court's prosecutors, Luis Moreno-Ocamp:
"We believe that grave crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the Court were committed in the Central African Republic...Attacks against civilians followed a failed coup attempt; there emerged a pattern of massive rapes and other acts of sexual violence perpetrated by armed individuals. Sexual violence appears to have been a central feature of the conflict."
Perhaps the most horrific aspect of the investigation is that it is believed that the crimes of sexual violence may outnumber the killings.
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