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The Pygmy Genocide
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- Completely eliminated 1/3 of Pygmy people
- Death from malnourishment since they were evicted from their forests, preventing them from their normal hunting practicies
- Unable to access resources for medical treatments, causing many disease deaths
- Hunted down, raped, massacred, eaten- "crimes against humanity'
- Killed because of prejudice, to gain magical powers, and for access to natural resources and land
- women are forced into sex slavery
Genocide Begins
- Pygmies were considered 'subhuman' and treated as animals by members of the militia
- During the Congo War, militias invaded the forests and carried out mass killings and cannibalism
- Believed by eating the Pygmies, they would posses "magical powers"
- 600,000 pygmies were hunted down and killed during the Congo Civil War between 1998-2003
- Most killing is done by "Les Effaceurs", or The Erasers, who are trying to rid the world of Pygmies
- Interhamwe(organization of Hutus in Rwanda) contributed to about 100,000 Pygmy fatalities during Rwandan genocide
Efforts/Awareness
History
- The pygmies have been in Congo since Europeans discovered the area
- Hunter-gatherer group of about 70,000-80,000 people
- Local farmers began to cut down trees of forests inhabited by Pygmies in early 20th century
- Officially evicted from their forests in 1991 in Uganda, and in 1960 in DCR after creation of national parks
- UN representative, Makelo, has reached out to try the government and DRC fighters for murder/cannibalism in a letter to the president
- Not many efforts to stop because of overshadowing of other mass killings
- Zephyrin Kalimba, president of Rwanda association for Indigenous people: “The Batwa families are very vulnerable and bound for extinction if nothing is urgently done."
- Due to regional conflict and inaccessibility of village, no investigations are made for crimes against humanity
About
Who: Batwas (Pygmies) people
What: Displacement and genocide of Pygmy people
When: Displacement began in 1960s, ethnic cleansing beginning in 1999 to present
Where: Mainly in forests of Democratic Republic of Congo, a country in Central Africa and Uganda
Why: Militia groups during Congo war wanted to clear the land for mineral and other natural resources use
The Pygmy Genocide
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