As the world focuses on the atrocities of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a far more brutal scenario has been unfolding some 2,500 miles directly south of Damascus. Situated in the sub-Sahel region of Africa, the poverty-stricken former French colony of the Central African Republic (CAR), torn throughout its post-colonial history by coups and rebellions, has had its latest coup deteriorate into an orgy of intercommunal violence, which has increasingly taken on interreligious connotations as groups have broken into Muslim and Christian camps.
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