A/HRC/26/53 III. Humanitarian situation 17. According to the Human Rights and Justice Section of BINUCA/MINUSCA, over the past four months, almost 348,046 persons originating from Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo or the Republic of the Congo, who had been living in the Central African Republic for generations, have fled the violence there in order to seek refuge in those neighbouring countries. Given that most of those persons no longer have ties, or support in their countries of origin, they are extremely vulnerable and need food aid. The number of displaced persons reportedly stands at more than 900,000, and some 1.6 million Central Africans out of a population of 4.5 million require humanitarian assistance. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners, there will be further population movements by the end of 2014. Those forecasts are all the more worrying given that the Independent Expert was informed, during her first visit, that only US$ 65 million of the US$ 550 million pledged following a humanitarian appeal had been mobilized. IV. Human rights situation A. Civil and political rights: violations of the rights to life, security and physical integrity 18. During her first visit, the Independent Expert found violations of the rights to life, security and physical integrity, which took the form of assassinations, summary executions, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, overcrowding in Bangui prison, poor conditions of detention, and insecurity in prisons and places of detention. She received reports that the perpetrators of most of these violations were ex-Seleka, anti-Balaka and elements of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and that most of the violations were committed by antiBalaka against Muslim groups. On her second visit, she found that human rights violations, albeit fewer of them, were still occurring. Daily acts of violence attributed to ex-Seleka, anti-Balaka, or other criminal groups destroy property and kill or injure persons in Bangui or the interior of the country. Threats of anti-Balaka and ex-Seleka violence still weigh heavily on the capital and the rest of the country. The security situation remains precarious. While MISCA and Sangaris forces have been deployed outside the capital, their numbers are insufficient to secure the entire territory of the Central African Republic. The European Union has deployed the European Union-led military mission EUFOR CAR to take over from Sangaris forces at Bangui airport. 19. Since 24 March 2013, the crisis in the Central African Republic has claimed thousands of victims, although it is difficult to estimate the total number since in some, mostly Muslim communities, the dead are buried immediately. In December 2013, attacks by anti-Balaka and reprisals by ex-Seleka forces claimed a particularly alarming number of victims. According to the report of the mission deployed to the country by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 12 to 24 December 2013, at least 1,000 persons were killed and hundreds wounded between 5 and 6 December 2013 in Bangui alone, while the Central African Red Cross reported more than 1,500 deaths. 3 Violence of this kind has continued to produce a steady flow of victims. Three Muslims were reportedly killed on 7 March 2014 by anti-Balaka in the Combattant district of 3 8 Oral report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the twentieth special session of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic, held on 20 January 2014. GE.14-03816