Coot
01-08-2003, 06:35 PM
UN investigators have found credible evidence that Congolese rebel troops have killed and eaten Pygmies in northeastern Congo, UN officials said Wednesday.
During the past week, UN human-rights investigators have been probing reports of cannibalism in Congo's northeastern Ituri province. Forces of the rebel Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC) and its allied Congolese Rally for Democracy-National (RCD-N) are accused of killing and eating Pygmies living in dense tropical forests.
The two rebel factions often hire Pygmies to hunt food for them in the forests as they concentrate on fighting to oust the rival rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation (RCD-ML) from mineral-rich areas of Ituri province, a UN official familiar with the probe said.
If the expert hunters return empty-handed, rebel troops kill and eat them, the official said.
I'm having a hard time being surprised at what comes out of there anymore.
Story Here. (http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20030108/wcann0108/Front/homeBN/breakingnews)
During the past week, UN human-rights investigators have been probing reports of cannibalism in Congo's northeastern Ituri province. Forces of the rebel Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC) and its allied Congolese Rally for Democracy-National (RCD-N) are accused of killing and eating Pygmies living in dense tropical forests.
The two rebel factions often hire Pygmies to hunt food for them in the forests as they concentrate on fighting to oust the rival rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation (RCD-ML) from mineral-rich areas of Ituri province, a UN official familiar with the probe said.
If the expert hunters return empty-handed, rebel troops kill and eat them, the official said.
I'm having a hard time being surprised at what comes out of there anymore.
Story Here. (http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20030108/wcann0108/Front/homeBN/breakingnews)