The mercenary group is operating in a volatile environment. A U.N. peacekeeping mission has not stamped out the violence and, in fact, hundreds of its soldiers have been sent home after reports of sexual abuse.
. Instead there’s been a “doubling-down of Wagner’s presence” and an expansion into other countries, MacLeod said.The mercenary group is operating in a volatile environment. The Central African Republic has suffered from a series of coups and failed governments since gaining independence from France in 1960. The latest coup in 2013, which saw Christian and Muslim militias pitted against each other, was organized by Séléka, a coalition of rebel groups.
has been sanctioned by the European Union for being “responsible for serious human rights abuses” while working for Wagner in the country., has looked into Wagner’s role in taking control of the Ndassima gold mine in the center of the nation, and developing the site into a large-scale operation with the potential to net the group hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.
“When they came, they presented documents saying that it was the government of our country that gave them permission and that this territory now belongs to them,” she said. “They didn’t say with their own mouths that they were Russians, but we knew they were Russians.” NBC News could not independently verify the specific account, and traveling to the areas around the mines can be dangerous. In 2018, three Russian journalists were killed in the Central African Republic while investigating Wagner, the team’s editor at Investigation Control Centre was quoted by saying.
Meanwhile, some fighters who carried out attacks on civilians say they were under direct orders to clear the areas in so-called “cleansing operations.”
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