News:

“Thousands of people have been killed since March 2013. At least 420,000 people have been displaced internally and more than 400,000 have fled to neighbouring countries. At least 470 Muslims from the Peuhl ethnic minority, trapped for several months in the Central African Republic town of Yaloke, around 200km from capital Bangui, need to be relocated as a matter of urgency, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said. “It is quite simple: it is now about life or death. Are we going to watch them die, or are we going to take heed to what they are saying and try to save them,” Dalia al-Achi, public information officer for the UNHCR in Bangui said.” (Source: aljazeera.com)

Comment:

Against the backdrop of the world’s events, plunging oil prices, ISIS attacks, Guantanamo release of a few prisoners…in the small part of the African continent in the Central Africa Republic, thousands of murders and attacks still occur. Muslims are under constant assault from the Christian anti-Balaka fighters in the region. Many try unsuccessfully to escape the horrendous injustices committed for simply being Muslim. With Christian vigilantes on the prowl, Muslim residents are left to fend for themselves with no weapons or authorities to protect them. It has been a while since any measures have been taken against the government’s gross neglect of the situation.

“If the UN peacekeeping mission is to have any credibility, it must take stronger steps to effectively protect civilians from the raft of abuses they are facing,” stated Stephen Cockburn, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa. The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), deployed on 15 September 2014, has not yet been able to stop or prevent most of these abuses, according to Amnesty.

The process of ethnic cleansing throughout various regions still continues undoubtedly whether it is reported on news agencies or not. While the media shines the light on more “pressing” issues does not mean that persecution of the Muslims has simply been remedied. The close proximity of the slaughter and torching of the Muslims to the capital of CAR is alarming.

UN council’s attempts and French security presence have not made a difference in curbing the violence. Since March 2013, numbers are increasing while they look wayward. Without the Muslim armies nearby especially the Egyptian army to squash the anti-Balaka thugs, they will keep terrorizing the women and children of their sub-human acts. The so-called African councils do not bring up CAR’s dilemma in to the limelight in order to counteract them or more importantly to rescue the Muslims of some who luckily escaped with their bodies intact, ensure their human right to security and safety in their homelands.

When will these artificial lines be erased for the Muslims to serve to reach them, to aid and shelter the weak and oppressed? When will these foreign agencies be exposed for what they really are? It is high time that these decrepit aging rulers of the MENA countries go back to their oxygen tanks and hospital beds and for the sincere capable ones with a true sense of leadership and governance take their rightful place as leaders according to the creed that will rescue and salvage the remaining calamities, ruling by the comprehensive ideology of Islam as the Messenger (saw) ruled and protected his people. How many more thousands of our Ummah must die for the sincere ones from the people of power to be jolted to their sense of duty?

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Um Muhanad