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A senior UN official on Monday condemned the latest wave of violence in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), including the killing of a member of the National Transitional Council, and called for those responsible to be brought to account.
The UN secretary-general's special representative and head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA), General Babacar Gaye, has condemned the violence that has engulfed Bangui for several weeks, including this weekend the killing of Jean-Emmanuel Ndjaroua, a member of the National Transition Council (CNT), by unidentified armed persons, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said at a daily news briefing here.
"Mr. Gaye said that this violence creates a climate of fear and encourages the emergence of acts of banditry," Nesirky said. "He urged the Central African authorities to establish a functional criminal chain to bring to justice those responsible for these crimes and thus put an end to impunity."
The spokesman added that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Deputy UN Secretary-General Jan Eliasson "remained extremely concerned about the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic."
BINUCA is mandated by the UN Security Council to support the implementation of the transition process by expediting the re- establishment of constitutional order and implementing the 2013 Libreville agreements which resulted in a temporary ceasefire and created a unity government in which opposition figures were given key posts.
The rebels claimed the government failed to live up to its commitments, and the conflict reignited resulting in thousands of people killed in sectarian violence over the past months, with the largely Christian militia, known as anti-Balaka (anti-machete), taking up arms against an alliance of mainly Muslim rebel groups -- known, collectively, as Seleka.
Also on Monday, General Gaye reiterated the Security Council's call on armed groups that they immediately lay down their arms.
The Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, supported by the UN human rights office and other UN entities, has described the human suffering in the country as "a crisis of epic proportions."
The 15-nation Security Council has authorized a new international push in CAR, allowing European troops to deploy an operation for an initial six months. They join an African-led and French-backed peacekeeping force to quell the spiraling violence known by its French acronym MISCA.
