Africa Great Lakes Democracy Watch



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Africa Great Lakes Democracy Watch Blog. Our objective is to promote the institutions of democracy,social justice,Human Rights,Peace, Freedom of Expression, and Respect to humanity in Rwanda,Uganda,DR Congo, Burundi,Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya,Ethiopia, and Somalia. We strongly believe that Africa will develop if only our presidents stop being rulers of men and become leaders of citizens. We support Breaking the Silence Campaign for DR Congo since we believe the democracy in Rwanda means peace in DRC. Follow this link to learn more about the origin of the war in both Rwanda and DR Congo:http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/gsdl/cgi-bin/library


Sunday, October 31, 2010

Who will get justice for the Bambuti? They have been exterminated in Congo by Ugandan-backed MLC and Rwandan-backed RCD rebels

by Kambale Musavuli on Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 3:21am
Reports of genocide click here to watch a video of pygmy people dancing
In 2003, Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN's Indigenous People's Forum that during the Congo Civil War, his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals. In neighbouring North Kivu province there has been cannibalism by a group known as Les Effaceurs ("the erasers") who wanted to clear the land of people to open it up for mineral exploitation. Both sides of the war regarded them as "subhuman" and some say their flesh can confer magical powers. Makelo asked the UN Security Council to recognise cannibalism as a crime against humanity and an act of genocide. According to Minority Rights Group International there is extensive evidence of mass killings, cannibalism and rape of Pygmies and have urged the International Criminal Court to investigate a campaign of extermination against pygmies. Although they have been targeted by virtually all the armed groups, much of the violence against Pygmies is attributed to the rebel group, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, which is part of the transitional government and still controls much of the north, and their allies (RCD-Goma - Rwandan backed rebel groups, and Ugandan soldiers).


Pygmies struggle to survive in war zone where abuse is routine
A threatened people are taken advantage of by everyone
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article402970.ece

DR Congo pygmies 'exterminated'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3869489.stm

DR Congo pygmies appeal to UN
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