Bozoum's situation remains tense and
difficult.SAturday was rather quiet, it let us arrange stuff. We needed
to tend to all 35 rooms, including schools, with hygiene, food, safety.
All together there was a nice atmosphere. For the kids it feels like a
holiday time, for the adults, hidden by few smiles, there's great worry
on
Saturday evening, the FOMAC (Nultinational Force of Central Africa)
told us they would come, but they didn't. On Sunday morning we celbrated
Mass and about 11 am everyone fled quickly: rumor had the Seleka rebels
arrived here at the mission....Refugees are 3000 and keep on arriving,
from other cities and villages. On sunday morning there had clashes on
the Bocaranga
road, 15th km: 2 Seleka dead. Many pelus have arrived also: they are
nomads that usually breed livestocks. There's 2200 of them and we're
trying to arrange food for them in their 3 sites they have. At 12.45 we
heard some shooting. I hurried there but people were ok. only later we
found out they shot a young guy....
3 pm i left with
the Red cross to retrieve 7 dead bodies and bring them into a mass
grave...along with the ones from the previous day it makes 12 people.
there's on reble of the anti-balaka, everyone else were just civilians
that were hiding in terror....
Crossing the town streets i can
only spot Muslims and Pelus with guns, big knives, machetes....there's
fear and tension: i;m really afraid this will end up a massacre. Here up
at the Mission we set up few barriers and we do not allow anyone
carrying weapons...
Today, Monday, we received more threats, we are fully alert.
We hope in the military action of FORMAC or France....
This
morning i run into few Muslims of our secondary school. Im happy to see
them, they are too. They're very sorry for this tension, i invited them
over for a match: a tiny sign of hope....
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