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the violence started in 2013 after muslim rebels from the seleka group forced former president both caesar out of power in revenge and balata groups killed thousands of muslims and forced more than $1000000.00 from their homes when i'm 1400 victims are expected to take part in this trial a trial that will be closely watched in central african republic the message from the i.c.c. is clear no more impunity for those involved in these crimes but the question is how this message where we were saved by doe still involved in the fighting rebel groups have again taken control of a part of central african republic after the presidential election last december the government has accused butties of being behind the violence and he is now being investigated for rebellion when we are still looking for how 'd the rebel leaders the militia leaders will react. with. i.c.c. for him to give your limited trust is that they are committing against the population of conversely. the only way for them to remain safe is to continue their criminal activity it offense is yet to make their opening statements the lea

the mostly christian and movements its fighters targeted muslims in a campaign of violence after muslim seleka rebels seized power in 2013 their alleged crimes include torture murder and rape both men deny the charges they were arrested in the c.a.r. in 2018 yet he was beaten and tortured after his arrest stuff osten is following the trial for a step is joining us from the hague so what do we expect to happen today step. well the trial against these 2 leaders has just started here in the hague it's the 1st time that this wave of violence in the central african republic in 20132014 is now on trial in the i.c.c. so that's why it's seen as a landmark case also looking at the atrocities that happened tom is facing $21.00 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity is facing even more $32.00 accounts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including also rape and attempted rape also recruiting child soldiers so the trial is opening here in 4 days to come the prosecutor will lay out the case and defense will also give initial statements then in a month from now the evidence will be presented

mostly christian movement there are cues that coordinating targeted violence towards muslims when muslim seleka rebels overthrew the government this was the moment the court laid out the charges. so nice criminally responsible under defiler we most. want. facilitating the commission of the crimes us set out in the french arches by 18 of 18 and otherwise assisting in their commission or to contribute in any other way to the commission of those crimes by a group of persons acting with a calm purpose so this was the 1st day let's bring in stop passengers joining us from the hague so just talk to us a little bit more about the case and as i'm saying it's a 1st stay how long are proceedings expected to take yes this is the 1st day and it will take a long time before this trial will finish this week the 1st 4 days will be just simply laying out the case and then in a month from now the evidence will be presented to process one of the prosecutor just mentioned he has $600.00 documents and there's also hundreds of witnesses that will be questions of course we're talking about the crimes that allegedly

tuesday they are accused of targeting muslims in a campaign of torture murder and rape it was often muslim seleka rebels overthrew the government at the time they were allegedly leaders of a predominantly christian rebel group from its inception and i saw i was aware of the anti blockers organizational policy that policy entailed violent targeting of muslim civilians and western c.a.r. who based on their role aegis national or ethnic affiliation were perceived as collectively responsible for complicit with and supportive of the telic you will hear this referred to as the criminal policy or common purpose in our presentation reporting from the i.c.c. at the hague here is step. well this is the 1st time that the 2 main major suspects in the way for violence that happened in 20132014 in central african republic are actually on trial here it's a trial that will be closely watched also in the central african republic at the moment we are violent is still happening we're talking about 2 leaders one is more like a military leader that and long so now is seen as a very close confidant of former president

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the most and civilian population in the western city the violence started in 2013 after muslim rebels from the seleka group forced former president both caesar out of power in revenge and balata groups killed thousands of muslims and forced more than 1000000 from their homes. when i'm 1400 victims are expected to take part in this trial a trial that will be closely watched in central african republic the message from the i.c.c. is clear no more impunity for those involved in these crimes but the question is how this message will we were saved by both still involved in the fighting rebel groups have again taken control over parts of central african republic after the presidential election last december the government has accused butties of being behind the violence and he's now being investigated for rebellion we're also looking for how the rebel leaders they're going to show you those who will react. or i.c.c. for him to give your limited trust is that they are committing against the population conversely. dark the only way for them to remain safe is to continue their criminal activity it offense is

tuesday they're accused of targeting muslims in a campaign of torture murder and rape as is often muslim seleka rebels overthrew the government at the time they were allegedly leaders of a predominantly christian rebel group from its inception and i saw i was aware of the anti blockers organizational policy that policy entailed violent targeting of muslim civilians in western c.a.r. who based on their religious national or ethnic affiliation were perceived as collectively responsible for complicit with and supportive of the telic you will hear this referred to is the criminal policy or common purpose in our presentation. i have understood everything that has been said here and i get to critically say these counts are not correct i reject all of the charges you have laid against me which should have been done i don't recognize the charges brought against me i am not guilty wrapping it up for us from the hague a step faster. well this is the 1st time that the 2 main major suspects in the way for violence that happened in 20132014 in central african republic are actually on trial here it's a trial

mostly christian militia who actually committed his violent out of revenge against the muslim minority group called seleka but actually pointed their aggression against the whole muslim population around 15 percent of the population in central african republic was a muslim at the time so they had a systematic operation they call it a military operation against this population also with the one aim and that was removing the muslim minority from the country altogether and it was some significant details of a photo shown and also video but also social media reports chapped conversations taken from people who were involved in the acts of violence showing that if there's a muslim house for example that a palm leaf would be laid in front of it so they would easily be targeted by these christian militias so it was according to the prosecution by song and dot com is seen as a very close confidant of a former president both these and he was also appointed to become the minister of youth and he was also seen as a fine and of this movement let's see what the prosecutor had to say about him. from its inception and i

here just a few weeks ago actually before this trial was opening and he's from the seleka militia which is the muslim militia who actually took over power in 2013 and that's when the ante bellum was spinning this revenge attacks it is important that also one of the seleka militia leaders so are the alleged militia leader is here to show that this is a very balanced accountability for what's happening what happened in the country back then so it shows that both sides are actually will be on trial and also looking at the situation out in central african republic where defiance is still continuing it shows a very strong message that people will not remain impudent if they have been committing these atrocities these war crimes that they're now being charged with step thanks for that service in the hague. where the military has denied carrying out a coup and has pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to seize power moments later the law of the deposed leader and sense of so the military had filed additional charges against her. continuing the