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NEW YORK (AP) - Government troops have been responsible for the worst atrocities of a simmering conflict in Central African Republic, burning down villages, executing civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, a human rights group said Friday.
An elite presidential guard unit based in the northern town of Bossangoa has been behind nearly all of the burnings and many of the killings, including the beheading of a teacher and the deaths of 30 civilians in one day last year, New York-based Human Right Watch said in a report.
"Troops arrive in villages and indiscriminately fire into the civilian population, forcing them to flee before burning down their homes, sometimes looting them first," the report said. "In some places, every single home in every single village was burned."
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