location: Paoua
notes: In Paoua, elements of Seleka burned houses and engaged in physical assaults, extortion, looting, arbitrary arrest and torture. By end of September, six months after they established a base in Paoua, the Seleka were said to have killed 82 people, injured 107 and displaced more than 8,000. 70 cases of rape, 712 cases of houses burnt down, 3,700 victims of lootings and 1,630 cattle stolen. This gave rise to vigilante militias in villages of Paoua.
target_text: location: Paoua, fatalities: 16