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New York - A UN commission of inquiry says it has found evidence of ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Central African Republic.

But it found no proof that genocide has occurred amid months of unprecedented sectarian violence that has killed thousands of people.

The report released on Thursday also says that while death toll reports ranged from 3 000 to 6 000, any such number is a "radical under-estimate" of the people killed in the vicious fighting among Christians and Muslims in the impoverished, landlocked nation.

The three-member commission of inquiry accuses both sides of war crimes and crimes against humanity but accuses the anti-Balaka Christian militia of ethnic cleansing of Muslims.

Thousands of Muslims have fled the country, where a fragile transitional government is trying to hold elections by an August 2015 deadline.

Well, 2015 could've started off better. Such a shame.

I wonder what challenger will say now....

And no one of importance was lost.

I'm going to need to properly teach you how morality is objective, one day. Then you'll be able to judge these things without needing an emotional response.

You little quasi-psychopathic scamp you.

When you say it's objective, do you mean that certain actions contribute to or take away from human well-being to certain degrees (that aren't necessarily measurable but distinguishable)? Or do you mean that human well-being is inherently a good thing?

Certain actions objective contribute or take away from human well-being, and human well-being is the only reasonable/possible basis for morality in the first place.

Morality is ambiguously defined, by well-being and by idealism (correct me if I'm wrong). Why can't the idealism be something other than human well-being?

Like what?

All areas of study have to make some sort of "first assumption"--it's the reason all knowledge is, in essence, conjectural. Human well-being may be ambiguous, but it's literally the only thing that makes any possible sense when you're considering what we ought to do as moral agents.

I should say, however, that "human well-being" is--and should be--expanded to the well-being of conscious creatures in general. If, for instance, we knew pigs suffered a lot more than cows we would--and should--have a higher degree of compassion for them.