Central African Republic descends into chaos after Christian militias go on rampage
Reports of cannibalism and other horrific acts of violence surfaced in the Central African Republic over the weekend as Christian militias went on the rampage following the resignation of the country’s Muslim president.
Western-backed peacekeepers, including French and African Union troops, were attempting to restore order after Christian mobs destroyed mosques and attacked Muslim neighbourhoods in the capital Bangui.
The mobs had sensed the upper hand after regional mediators brought about the resignation on Friday of President Michel Djotodia, who was headed for exile in the West African state of Benin. Sectarian violence has already claimed more than 1,000 lives in the CAR in the past month and witnesses spoke yesterday of how a machete-wielding gang ate parts of the body of a Muslim man after attacking him on Tuesday.
The BBC interviewed a man, who said he ate part of the Muslim man as “revenge” for the murder of his family.
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corporatism for many decades. The people and land of the Central African republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been the victims of cruel and vicious practices by European imperialists. The area is wealthy in uranium, oil, gold, diamonds, lumber, and hydropower. But the people are among the poorest in the world. They and their land have been repeatedly raped by foreign capitalists, and these foreign capitalists destabilize the government in order to prevent any kind of nationalist movement that would nationalize the resources and take away the sources of the greedy imperialist's profits.
This began in earnest after the Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960. The people of the Congo elected their first democratically elected leader of the Republic of the Congo, a beloved champion of the people named Patrice Lumumba. Eisenhower, fearing Lumumba was too close to being a communist, sent the CIA over to stage a coup, depose Lumumba, put in their authoritarian dictator capitalist pig crone Mobutu to maintain foreign corporate control of the country and its resources. Naturally, Lumumba was soon executed.
The only reason the US gives a shit about Africa is because Wall St. and the MIC want all Africa's resources for themselves. Global economic interests are the beneficiaries of the cycle of repeated destabilization and reorganization. If a genuine democratic leader interested in the welfare of the people is voted into power somewhere in Africa, you can be sure s/he will be deposed and probably shot by someone acting in service of some foreign global economic interest. But they've figured out how to never let it get to that point by continual destabilization.
In the meantime, who do you suppose is making all the coin from exploiting the abundant resources of Central Africa? The average worker who brings in an average of a whopping $300 a year as a result of the "glorious beneficence" 
of the humanitarian global economic imperialists?
The agenda is for the control of the natural resources throughout Africa. If Washington can counter China by influencing governments through military and financial aid, then the possibility of exploiting oil and other commodities will benefit the Military-Industrial Complex and Wall Street.
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With the U.S. involved in coups, wars and political manipulation of governments in the past and present, China seems more favorable to most governments in Africa. Why? China is not overthrowing governments or invading countries, they negotiate with the intention of doing business with the country for the long-term. China seeks business partners for its own economic growth with investment projects in many African nations. As for America’s future in the African continent, it seems the Africa Command (AFRICOM) and its new drone base in Niger
does not seem to win the “hearts and minds” of most African governments and its people. Then again, the U.S. can intimidate countries within Africa with its military and intelligence apparatus by either implementing a coup, assassinating a political leader (Patrice Lumumba of the Congo) or even a direct military intervention. The question is will Africa stand up to the most powerful empire in history or will it continue to allow Western powers (U.S. France and Britain) to exploit its natural resources?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-battle-for-oil-in-central-africa-fighting-joseph-kony-and-the-lords-resistance-army-or-confronting-china/5344311
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The inauguration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in January 1961 caused fear among Mobutu's faction and within the CIA that the incoming administration would shift its favor to the imprisoned Lumumba.[50] Lumumba was killed three days before Kennedy's inauguration on 20 January, though Kennedy would not learn of the killing until 13 February.[51]
Church Committee
In 1975, the Church Committee went on record with the finding that Allen Dulles had ordered Lumumba's assassination as "an urgent and prime objective".[52] Furthermore, declassified CIA cables quoted or mentioned in the Church report and in Kalb (1972) mention two specific CIA plots to murder Lumumba: the poison plot and a shooting plot. Although some sources claim that CIA plots ended when Lumumba was captured, that is not stated or shown in the CIA records.
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Declassified documents revealed that the CIA had plotted to assassinate Lumumba. These documents indicate that the Congolese leaders who killed Lumumba, including Mobutu and Joseph Kasavubu received money and weapons directly from the CIA.[42][56] This same disclosure showed that at that time the U.S. government believed that Lumumba was a communist.[57]
A recently declassified interview with then-US National Security Council minutekeeper Robert Johnson revealed that U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had said "something [to CIA chief Allen Dulles] to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated".[55] The interview from the Senate Intelligence Committee's inquiry on covert action was released in August 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba
Installed and supported in office primarily by Belgium and the United States,[1] he formed an authoritarian regime, amassed vast personal wealth, and attempted to purge the country of all colonial cultural influence while enjoying considerable support by the United States due to his anti-communist stance.
During the Congo Crisis, Belgian and CIA-backed forces aided Mobutu in a coup against the nationalist government of Patrice Lumumba in 1960 to take control of the government. Lumumba was the first leader in the country to be democratically elected and was killed by a Katangese firing squad; Mobutu soon became the army chief of staff.[2] He took power directly in a second coup in 1965. As part of his program of “national authenticity”, Mobutu changed the Congo's name to Zaïre in 1971 and his own name to Mobutu Sese Seko in 1972.
Mobutu established a single-party state in which all power was concentrated in his hands. He also became the object of a pervasive cult of personality.[2] During his reign, Mobutu built a highly centralized state and amassed a large personal fortune through economic exploitation and corruption, leading some to call his rule a “kleptocracy”.[3][4] The nation suffered from uncontrolled inflation, a large debt, and massive currency devaluations. By 1991, economic deterioration and unrest led him to agree to share power with opposition leaders, but he used the army to thwart change until May 1997, when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country. Already suffering from prostate cancer, he died three months later in Morocco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko
On 1 December 1958 the colony of Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous territory within the French Community and took the name Central African Republic. The founding father and president of the Conseil de Gouvernement, Barthélémy Boganda, died in a mysterious plane accident in 1959, just eight days before the last elections of the colonial era.
On 13 August 1960, the Central African Republic gained its independence and two of Boganda's closest aides, Abel Goumba and David Dacko, became involved in a power struggle. With the backing of the French, Dacko took power and soon had Goumba arrested. By 1962, President Dacko had established a one-party state.
Bokassa and the Central African Empire
On 31 December 1965, Dacko was overthrown in the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état by Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly. President Bokassa declared himself President For Life in 1972, and named himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire (as the country was renamed) on 4 December 1976. A year later, Emperor Bokassa crowned himself in a lavish and expensive ceremony that was ridiculed by much of the world.[14] In April 1979, young students protested against Bokassa's decree that all school attendees would need to buy uniforms from a company owned by one of his wives. The government violently suppressed the protests, killing 100 children and teenagers. Bokassa himself may have been personally involved in some of the killings.[15] In 1979, France carried out a coup against Bokassa and "restored" Dacko to power (the name of the country was subsequently restored to Central African Republic). Dacko, in turn, was overthrown in a coup by General André Kolingba on 1 September 1981.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic
