A Long Road to Justice in the Central African Republic

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Click to expand Image Seleka forces patrol a street of Bangui, Central African Republic, March 28, 2013. © 2013 SIA KAMBOU/AFP via Getty Images In November 2013, I went to Bangui and met Michel Djotodia, then the Central African Republic’s self-proclaimed interim president.

He had taken over the country as the head of a rebel coalition called the Seleka. He received me in a run-down military camp on a hill overlooking the capital, in a darkened office watched over by security cameras and guarded by…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · October 1, 2026

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