The United Nations (UN) strongly condemned on Saturday the attack on an airfield in the south-east of the Central African Republic (CAR), which resulted in the death of a Moroccan peacekeeper.
The attack on UN peacekeepers at Obo airfield took place on Thursday during a United Nations operation to secure the perimeter of the airfield to allow planes to land.
In a statement released by the office of his spokesman, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the attack and expressed his deepest condolences to the family of the deceased peacekeeper as well as to the kingdom and people of Morocco.
He considered that such attacks “may constitute war crimes under international law” and called on the Central African government “to spare no effort to identify the perpetrators of this tragedy so that they are quickly brought to justice”.
The UN Security Council issued a statement late Friday condemning the attack “in the strongest terms”, stressing that anyone involved in planning, directing or sponsoring such attacks might be punished.
CAR, which is one of the poorest countries in the world, is plagued by violence between rival national groups, ethnic tensions and raids by international armed groups.
