“Almost the entire Muslim quarter was burned and looted,” Nainangue said. “We were collecting the dead and the injured from the neighborhood for a week.”
Among those trying to stop the cycle of violence are two of the country's most senior clerics, a Christian and a Muslim who not only work together in the name of peace but also lived together for several months."
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"]In the cycle of violence that followed, mobs of angry Christians attacked Muslims, and remnants of the rebel force and other armed Muslims retaliated against Christians. Many Christians now insist that the country won't be safe until every Muslim has left."
.. and yet they lived relatively peacefully together for a very long time .. those Muslim and Christian individuals who stand against the "hard heads", and their followers, of both religions in places such as the Central African Republic have to be among the most courageous individuals ever.
Good link to, Stephanie. This one to link to others on that tragedy.