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U.N. probing reports of cannibalism of Pygmies in Congo by rebel troops

By RODRIQUE NGOWI, Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya - U.N. investigators have found credible evidence to support reports that Congolese rebel troops have killed and eaten Pygmies in northeastern Congo, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

During the past week, U.N. human rights investigators have been looking into reports of cannibalism in Congo's northeastern Ituri province, where forces of the rebel Congolese Liberation Movement, or MLC, and its allied Congolese Rally for Democracy-National, or RCD-N, are accused of killing and eating Pygmies living in its dense tropical forests, said Manodje Mounoubai, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo.

"The U.N. is taking these accusations very seriously and has sent a team of six officials to investigate the accusations and other human rights abuses in the region," Mounoubai said in a telephone interview from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. He said he preferred to wait until the investigators had left the area before providing further information.

However, other U.N. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said investigators have established that the charges are credible.

MLC and RCD-N troops 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, or RCD-ML, from mineral-rich areas of Ituri province, a U.N. official familiar with the investigation said on condition of anonymity.

But if the expert hunters return empty-handed, rebel troops kill and eat them, the official said.

Sudi Alimasi, an official with the rebel RCD-ML, said the group began receiving reports of cannibalism more than a week ago from people displaced by fighting.

"We hear reports of MLC and RCD-N commanders feeding on sexual organs of Pygmies, apparently believing this would give them strength," Alimasi said by telephone from Kinshasa. "We also have reports of Pygmies being forced to feed on cooked remains of their colleagues."

The Program for Aid to Pygmies in Beni, a Congolese advocacy group, called on the international community not to abandon the Pygmies — "a minority race already threatened with extinction."

"It is unacceptable that the international community focuses on protecting endangered animals like the okapi, the mountain gorilla and the rhinoceros and pays no attention to the fate of human beings like ... the Pygmies, who are nevertheless every bit as much in danger of extinction," the group said in a statement.

Nearly all the foreign troops involved in the war in Congo that broke out in August 1998 have withdrawn, but fighting has intensified among the country's main rebel factions, splinter groups and tribal fighters after the pullout in the east.

Being a pulp era fan, I like any article with cannibalism in the Congo. Adding pygmies to the mix just makes it all that much more proper.

The sad part is that articles about rebel troops (and govt troops as well) eating people have become so common as to be old hat. Maybe it's something in the water.

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