Moscow denied a Bloomberg News article detailing mercenary involvement in killings, looting and other violence in the Central African Republic (CAR). Here is our factCheck:
and a host of related enterprises operating in Africa, along with the Internet Research Agency, the infamous St. Petersburg troll farm accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.. In 2017, CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadera turned to Russia to secure weapons and military advisers, including Wagner mercenaries, to reinforce his army’s operations.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, which sanctioned Prigozhin and Lobaye Invest in September 2020, the company “was founded in CAR in October 2017 and specializes in the extraction of gold and diamonds, both lucrative exports of CAR.” “This blurring of the lines between civil, military and peacekeeping operations during the hostilities creates confusion about the legitimate targets and increases the risks for widespread human rights and humanitarian law abuses …”
“There is compelling evidence that Russian-identified forces supporting the Central African Republic’s government have committed grave abuses against civilians with complete impunity,” said Ida Sawyer, crisis and conflict director at HRW., an English-language publication, said Wagner mercenaries have been actively mining since 2018, especially gold and diamonds, mainly through Lobaye Invest.
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