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 KAGA-BANDORO, Central African Republic (AP) - Scores of villages have been burned down in remote northwestern areas of Central African Republic during a government campaign to rout rebels, local officials and aid groups said.
An Associated Press reporter saw hundreds of burned huts in empty villages while accompanying a U.N. mission to the region this week, visiting dozens of damaged communities around the provincial capital of Kaga-Bandoro.
"Our village was burned down by the army, who accused people living here of collaborating with the rebels," said Jonas Andjeligaza, the deputy chief of Zoumbeti, about 30 miles south of Kaga-Bandoro. He said two elderly men were burned to death in their homes last week.
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