FRENCH JOURNALIST CAMILLE LEPAGE KILLED IN CAR

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A main topic of this article is religious conflict between Muslims and Christians in Central African Republic (CAR).
A French journalist was murdered in CAR during her working.
Citing her last tweet, the article says that this accident is attributed to disturbed social order and security triggered by religious conflict between Muslims and Christians. Although there’re already thousands of troops from the African Union, France and EU, CAR still cannot gain quietness.

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The article brings several issues on the table, but I’d like to refer two of them.
The main issue is the difficulty in co-existing different religions in the same community, especially between Muslims and Christians. I think it is because those two can be both characterized as major religions of monotheism with strong exclusivity. They believe that their worship is one and only worship all people should believe. In addition, people, where the idea of secular politics is not matured enough, are more likely to attack other religions over political authority. I think these characteristics of religions results in prolonging religious conflict.
Another issue I mention is that the safety of people working in countries where social order is unstable. As we can see a case of a murdered French journalist, it seemed to be difficult for the French government to avoid the accidents. The international communities already pressurized CAR in aspect of diplomacy and military even before she was murdered, because there were consensus among foreign countries that the government of CAR lacks capability to control. Therefore, I think foreign governments should seek another way in order to protect people working in developing countries.

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