A Cameroonian army operation has freed not
less than 16 hostages, including Polish
Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic, who was
abducted by rebels from Central African
Republic in October, Cameroon’s government
said on Wednesday. Reuters was has more:
“A special operation of
Cameroonian defense and security
forces permitted the liberation last
night of 15 Cameroonian hostages
…as well as the Polish priest
Mateusz Dziedzic,” the statement
said.
The head of the organization that
runs Poland’s overseas Catholic
missions had said a rebel group
known as the Democratic Front of
the Central African People (FDPC)
abducted Dziedzic on the night of
Oct. 12 in neighboring Central
African Republic.
The FDPC, one of a number of
armed groups that has fought the
Central African government and
other militants in an off-on conflict
in the former French colony over
the past decade, had demanded
Cameroon release its leader
Abdoulaye Miskine.
It was not immediately clear if this
condition had been met.
The FDPC was initially allied with
Seleka, a coalition of local rebels
that also included fighters from
neighboring Sudan and Chad which
toppled the Central African
government and seized the capital
Bangui in March 2013.
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