At about 5 a.m. local time on March 19, a Sino-capital mine in the Central African Republic was attacked by unknown armed elements, killing nine Chinese and injuring two Chinese. The attacked gold mine belongs to the Gold Cost Group.
According to photos posted on Twitter, all 9 dead were in a forward-facing position, all shot in the back of the head, and showed no signs of struggle and flight. It is speculated that they must have been executed by execution.
Since the incident, no organization has claimed responsibility for the attack. However, reports of suspicion of the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), an active local rebel, were denied by the CPC, saying that "the work of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary group, to intimidate local Chinese," but they did not provide strong evidence.
Wagner Group
Let's start with the background of the Wagner Group.
Wagner is a Western name for a mercenary service organization in Russia, and in fact, no real organization or company has this name.
There is information that the Wagner Group is held by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The group consists of the remnants of the mercenary "Slavic Legion" that fought in Syria in 2013, and the core personnel is Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Utkin, who served in the 2nd separate special contingent of the 700th separate brigade of the GRU (Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff). When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the Wagner Group was first involved in military operations against Ukraine. Later, they were involved in the Syrian civil war.
According to Deutsche Welle, at least thousands of Wagner members are currently located in African countries. They mainly control the trade in tropical timber, gold, sugar, and wine.
But no matter what Wagner is doing in Africa, as long as he is on the side of Russia, he will not attack Chinese.
Why?
Because since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russia has been severely sanctioned and surrounded by the NATO bloc, and the economy is very difficult, at this time, the development of trade relations with the East is very important, and China and Russia are geographically dependent on each other, each other's fence relationship, life and death dependent, glory and disgrace, how can Wagner stab an old friend? They won't be so stupid. The CPC's allegations are baseless and suspect of passing the blame.
Therefore, Wagner was ruled out of suspicion.
Patriots Change Alliance
The rest is CPC.
The CPC is notorious, often kidnapping, assaulting, rape and other activities against local civilians, foreign businessmen and UN peacekeepers.
What organization is CPC? It started ten years ago.
In 2013, Central African Republic President François Bozizé was ousted by the "Selleca" rebels, who also seized power in a coup d'état in 2003, at which time his ouster was considered karma, and Central Africa has since descended into civil strife. Because "Selleka" is a military alliance composed of minority Muslims, after the successful coup, Christians and pan-believers in Central Africa also formed militias to defend themselves, so incidents of revenge and retaliation between the two sides occurred from time to time.
After his ouster, Bozizé did not sit idle, waiting for the December 2012 general election in hopes of becoming president again. Unexpectedly, on December 3, 2020, the Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic rejected Bozizé's candidacy. The next day, Bozizé met with Mohamed Khatim, leader of the Patriotic Movement for Central Africa (MPC), in Kaga Bandoro. Subsequently, the security situation in the Central African Republic deteriorated significantly. It was not until 2016, when France (the former colonial power) intervened, that the Central African Republic successfully elected President Tuvadera. However, the various militias in the country have become overrun and fragmented, and the Government effectively controls less than one third of the territory of the country.
On December 15, 2020, six major rebel groups in the Central African Republic, including Anti-Machete, UPC, Front pour la peuple renewal, 3R and PACCA, came together to form a military alliance, the Alliance for Patriotic Change (CPC), with Bozizé as their general coordinator, in order to disrupt the December 27, 2020 elections and attempt to seize power by force.
The CPC controls two-thirds of the Central African Republic, including Mbomou and Haute-Coto provinces, which are rich in natural resources such as uranium, gold and diamonds.
Macron visits Africa
The civil war in Central Africa is ostensibly a mutual attack by various rebel groups, but in fact it is a game between Russia and France in the region.
On March 1, French President Emmanuel Macron visited four African countries. The first stop was Gabon, followed by visits to Angola, the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to Agence France-Presse, Macron's visit, an attempt to "test the new responsible relationship between France and Africa" through diplomatic drive, will reduce the number of French troops stationed in Africa to ease tensions in West Africa, where anti-French sentiment is high.
France has bilateral military relations with 40 African countries, including 1,450 deployed in Djibouti, 350 in Gabon, 950 in Côte d'Ivoire and 350 military and 50 civilian personnel in Senegal.
Whether Macron went to Africa to ride an elephant, engage in a mahogany business, or return to this incident,—— who is the murderer?
Who is the murderer?
The editor believes that CPC is the most suspected.
Why?
1. The CPC is an armed group indirectly controlled by Bozizé, who aims to compete for the president of Central Africa and is naturally opposed to all the policy measures of the current president, Tuvadera, including all the foreign investment agreements he has signed and agreed.
2. The CPC controls most of the territory of the Central African Republic and considers itself the master, and any foreign investor who comes here to mine minerals will be seen as robbing them of their resources and wealth, which is the same mentality as the "Balo Liberation Army".
3,9 Chinese were executed by execution, and the warning was very strong.
4, the rebel armed forces everywhere have divided the sphere of influence, if your enterprise signed a mining agreement with the Central African government, but accidentally mined the boundary when mining, and you yourself do not know, then the other party thinks that you have offended him and are robbing their minerals.
In short, Africa, like the Middle East, has a patchwork of various forces and a complex situation, and Chinese companies that invest there must be careful and equipped with armed forces to make every move. Therefore, it is recommended that the "Wolf Warrior" mercenary regiment be formed to carry out peacekeeping and protection tasks in Africa.