En septembre 2003, à la suite d’allégations faisant état de viols commis de manière généralisée et systématique par des combattants participant au conflit armé, AI a envoye 2 chercheurs a Bangui, afin de recueillir de plus amples détails sur la situation.
In September 2003, following allegations of widespread and systematic rape by combatants in the armed conflict in the CAR, Amnesty International (AI) decided to send two researchers to the capital, Bangui, to gather further information.
Samira Bellil, whose book recounting gang rape she suffered as a teenager in a tough Paris suburb put her in the avant-garde of a small movement fighting for French Muslim women's rights, has died of stomach cancer. She was 31.