2018 Alindao massacre

Séléka takeover (2012–2013) Séléka–Anti-balaka conflict (2013–2020) CPC rebellion (2020–) On 15 November 2018 at least 112 people including 19 children, 44 women and 49 men were killed in attacks on refugee camps in Alindao by UPC and Anti-balaka fighters.

[1] On 15 November around 8:00 local Muslims supported by armed UPC fighters began entering IDP site from the north-west, mostly on foot and with vehicles.

Between 200 and 400 armed attackers included besides UPC fighters local militia called "mujahedin" consisting of Alindao's Muslim youth.

[1] At the beginning of the attack 35 MINUSCA soldiers were present at the site in base located at the center of the camp as well as four security outposts.

[1] Almost entire camp's population of 17,732 people were forced to flee to local MINUSCA base and into bush around Alindao where they had to remain for several days suffering from hunger, thirst and lack of shelter and medical care.

[4] Another UPC general who was reportedly responsible for the massacre, Hassan Bouba, was nominated as a minister of livestock in the Touadera government.

Picture of a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) remnant found by a witness after the attack by UPC on the IDP site in Alindao