CAR crash

摘要

"Our national servicemen died for a worthy cause," declared Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, at a memorial service for 13 South African soldiers killed on March 23rd by rebel forces near Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (car). "They died in defence of the country's foreign policy." A day after the lethal ambush, Bangui fell to an alliance of rebels, known as Seleka, which had lost patience with a power-sharing deal brokered only in January. The car's president, Francois Bozize, fled to nearby Cameroon. And President Zuma faced angry questions about an engagement that resulted in the largest number of military casualties suffered by South Africa since the end of white-minority rule in 1994.