MSF details atrocities

The army, pro-government militia and armed rebel groups have “generated massive and blind atrocities” against civilian populations since the resumption of conflict in December 1998, MSF said in a report released on Wednesday. It said more than 10 percent of the country’s population had been displaced, including over 250,000 people who fled the capital Brazzaville and sought refuge in the forests of the Pool region south of the city, where they became “de facto hostages” of the Ninja militia allied to former prime minister Bernard Kolelas. “Victims of indiscriminate violence, they have had no access to food or medical care,” it said, adding that those who managed to return to Brazzaville were now the victims of indiscriminate attacks from the government army and its Cobra militia.