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Thread ID: 14465 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-07-06
2004-07-06 22:39 | User Profile
Africa: Congo pygmies 'exterminated' - cannibalized
The International Criminal Court is being urged to investigate "a campaign of extermination" against pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Minority Rights Group International say they have gathered evidence of mass killings, cannibalism and rape. Congolese regard them as "subhuman" with some believing their flesh can confer magical powers. Horror: "There have been systemic rapes and killings on a huge scale," One witness they spoke to survived the late night massacre of an entire village. He said that everyone was shot and hacked to death and the huts were burnt.
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3869489.stm[/url]
2004-07-07 00:08 | User Profile
I thought blacks and other non-whites were a tolerating people. Could I have been misinformed? :sad: j/k
2004-07-07 00:18 | User Profile
I wonder if it is true,,,,,,,sounds to me like another one of those book covers with human skin and smelly soap with human fat and the best one of them all "6 million killed".
2004-07-07 07:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Solid]I thought blacks and other non-whites were a tolerating people. Could I have been misinformed? :sad: j/k
This isn't even remotely unusual; stuff like this happens in Black Africa literally every day. It just usually doesn't make the news becase there's nothing interesting about it (and it sort of makes the Blacks look like what they are, and we can't have that). Pygmies are what makes this story interesting. I read a series of novels in which Africa was conquered by a hard-core White Supremacist state that made many of the Blacks into industrial slaves and exterminated the rest, except for the Pygmies, who as an oddity of nature, were permitted to live so long as they retained their traditional, hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
2004-07-07 12:29 | User Profile
I have a mixed reaction to this. On the one hand, it is quite horrifying, if true. No one deserves to be hunted down like an animal.
On the other hand, I certainly have my doubts as to the veracity of these reports. There is an extremely well-established precedent for making wild-eyed atrocity claims to spur or justify international intervention. Kosovo, anyone? Gulf War I?