Pro-government forces, angry at not being paid, are reportedly behind a looting spree in northern Central African Republic that has sent more than one thousand refugees fleeing into Chad in the past few days, United Nations sources said Sunday. Many of the refugees claim armed militias ransacked their villages, according to aid workers for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.N. refugee agency, according to DPA. Attacks in the country's volatile north since May have sent about 10,000 people fleeing to Chad. President Francois Bozize, whose rebel army helped him seize power in 2003, won a national election earlier this year, but there is growing resentment over the government's inability to pay its workers, including its soldiers. Most people on the government payroll have not been paid in three years.
