A/HRC/26/53 Bangui. These extrajudicial executions were followed on 8 March 2014 by the deaths of four alleged members of anti-Balaka militias, who were reportedly killed by Muslims. 20. At least 20 persons were killed on the night of 27 to 28 March 2014 in Bangui during a grenade attack at a funeral wake. On 14 April 2014, the discovery of four bodies of persons of the Christian faith, including three from the same family (father, mother and daughter), was reported to the Human Rights and Justice Section of BINUCA/MINUSCA. These persons were reportedly killed by ex-Seleka in the Bimbo district of the sixth arrondissement of Bangui. Fighting between anti-Balaka, ex-Seleka and other armed groups continues to produce civilian casualties in the interior of the country. Crimes continue to be committed, such as the murder of the parish priest of Paoua in the Bossangoa (North) diocese, abbé Christ Formane Wilibona, who was said to have been killed on Thursday, 17 April 2014 by armed Fulani herders affiliated to ex-Seleka rebels. In Dekoa, clashes between ex-Seleka and anti-Balaka reportedly resulted in 30 deaths on 9 April 2014. 21. Since the deployment of MISCA and Sangaris forces pursuant to Security Council resolution 2127 (2013), the number of reported killings has decreased, but it remains worryingly high as the Independent Expert was able to observe during her second visit. 22. Incidents in Bangui and in the interior of the country have not abated, as evidenced by the clashes between armed groups, the attack against the Médecins sans frontières health centre in Nanga Boguila on 26 April 2014, which resulted in 22 deaths, and the attack on a humanitarian convoy in Dikissou on 28 April 2014, which left 2 dead. The violence, which continues mainly because of the proliferation of firearms and light weapons in camps for internally displaced persons in Bangui and the hinterland, calls for emergency security measures. The continued presence of weapons in the hands of criminals generates violence; it is a constant threat to the right to security and peace and impedes development and citizens’ participation in decision-making processes affecting their daily lives. 23. The right to human security, in particular physical security, freedom of movement and freedom to choose one’s residence, continues to be violated. This has been the case in the PK12, KM5 and Boda districts where Muslims are unable to leave their homes without the risk of being shot dead by the anti-Balaka. As a result, there are no longer any Muslims in Bossangoa, while in Boda the Muslims that remain, despite being protected by the Sangaris and/or MISCA forces, lack basic necessities that neither protection force can provide. They live under the constant threat of anti-Balaka violence and are forcibly confined to their neighbourhoods which they cannot leave to buy food. 24. In the hinterland, clashes between the anti-Balaka, who are trying to gain ground, and the ex-Seleka, who are resisting, and between those groups and MISCA or the French Sangaris forces, who are trying to disarm them, place the civilian population in an intractable situation. The Independent Expert was informed of several incidents that occurred in April 2014. On 22 April 2014, at Grimari, there were clashes between antiBalaka and ex-Seleka forces; on the same day, in Bouca, attacks attributed to the ex-Seleka led humanitarian workers to take refuge in MISCA camps before being evacuated to Bossangoa; in Batangafo, ex-Seleka reportedly carried out kidnappings; in Paoua, many villages were burned and looted during the first weeks of April; in Kaga Bandoro, fires, rapes of women and child abductions attributed to the Fulani have been reported in the surrounding villages; in Boda and in the Lobaye prefecture, physical assaults and rapes were reported by NGOs, and in Mobaye, Alindao and Kembe in Basse Kotto, atrocities were committed. The climate of insecurity and intercommunal tension tinged with sectarianism all across the country limit freedom of opinion and expression, and above all religious freedom. In some parts of the country, it is almost impossible to practise one’s religious beliefs for fear of acts of violence, ill-treatment or elimination. Women and children are often the victims of these abuses, as well as older persons, persons with disabilities and persons with HIV/AIDS. GE.14-03816 9