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L’Évêché displacement camp in Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic, on September 29, 2016, two weeks before the Seleka attack. © Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
L’Évêché displacement camp in Kaga Bandoro Central African Republic, on October 19, 2016, one week after the Seleka attack © Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
A man inspects his burned hut in L’Évêché displacement camp, Central African Republic, on October 12. Seleka forces burned at least 435 huts in the camp. © Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
A United Nations peacekeeper in Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic, looks out over the new displacement camp near the airstrip that formed after the October 12 attack. © Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
The new displacement camp in Kaga Bandoro, around the MINUSCA base and airstrip, where approximately 15,000 people sought shelter after the Seleka attack on October 12. © Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
General Mahamt Al Khatim, military head of the Central African Patriotic Movement (Mouvement Patriotique pour la Centrafrique), a Seleka group in Kaga-Bandoro. Al Khatim told Human Rights Watch that his men were not involved in the attack on L’Évêché displacement camp on October 12, 2016. © Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
Anti-balaka fighters man a road block at Makonzi Wali, 20 kilometers south of Bocaranga and 20 kilometers east of De Gaulle, in the Koui sub-prefecture of the Ouham Pendé province, Central African Republic, on November 26, 2016. © 2016 Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
Self-proclaimed General, Abba Rafal, the anti-balaka leader in Bocaranga, Central African Republic. Rafal told Human Rights Watch that he does not kill civilians, but he has killed Peuhl whom he believed worked as “spies.” © 2016 Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
Fighters from the rebel group “Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation” (3R) in De Gaulle, in the Koui sub-prefecture of the Ouham Pendé province, Central African Republic, November 25, 2016. © 2016 Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
Fighters from the rebel group “Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation” (3R) in De Gaulle, in the Koui sub-prefecture of the Ouham Pendé province, Central African Republic, on November 25, 2016. © 2016 Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
"Claude,” 21, said 3R rebel group fighters tortured him in De Gaulle, in the Koui sub-prefecture of the Ouham Pendé province, Central African Republic, after the group seized the town in late September. © 2016 Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
A displaced girl from Boumari prepares food outside her family’s makeshift hut near the village of Bodé on November 23, 2016. Attacks by the 3R rebel group have forced at least 17,000 people from their homes in the Central African Republic. © 2016 Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch
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