Troops claim 'supernatural powers' after pygmy sodomy


From correspondents in Kigali, Rwanda

May 09, 2009 09:30pm


GOVERNMENT troops sodomized pygmies in March in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, believing they would gain supernatural powers, a regional rights group said.

"Some soldiers from the 85th Brigade sodomized three male pygmies to gain supernatural powers and protection in Kisa village in Walikale territory,'' the Human Rights League of the Great Lakes said.

"The village chief was stripped and (sodomized) in the presence of his wife, his children and daughter in-law.

"The children in turn were stripped and raped in front of their father."

It said armed groups in the region also abused the pygmies.

Elderly citizens and children were also being raped by the armed groups and wayward FARDC soldiers in eastern DRC, it added.

The pygmies live essentially as subsistence hunter-gatherers in the forests in the DRC's equatorial zones and have been targeted by militia groups in the past.

Among the armed groups roaming the eastern part of Congo are the Rwandan Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda rebels.

Some of its members are accused of being among the main perpetrators of Rwanda's 1994 genocide by Hutus against the Tutsi minority.

The United Nations and global human rights organizations have accused the FDLR of engaging in mass murder, rape and pillage of locals' property.

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Didn't pygmies used to be cannibals? LOL

Maybe,
instead of hunting monkeys they should resume some old traditions?

I wonder if it worked.
Did they gain super-human powers?

Or did they just get their stick muddy?

that is just sad

things like this just disgust me

Pygmy is a term used for various ethnic groups worldwide whose average height is unusually low; anthropologists define as pygmy any group whose adult males grow to less than 150 cm (4 feet 11 inches) in average height[1] A member of a slightly taller group is termed pygmoid.[citation needed] The best known pygmies are the Aka, Efé and Mbuti of central Africa. There are also pygmies in Thailand, Malaysia,[2] Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Brazil and Bolivia.[3] The term also includes the Negritos of Southeast Asia. The remains of at least 25 miniature humans, who lived between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, were found on the islands of Palau in Micronesia.[4]

The term "pygmy" is often considered degrading. However, there is no single term to replace it that covers all African pygmies.[5] Many so-called pygmies prefer instead to be referred to by the name of their various ethnic groups, or names for various interrelated groups such as the Aka (Mbenga), Baka, Mbuti, and Twa.[6] The term Bayaka, the plural form of the Aka/Yaka, is sometimes used in the Central African Republic to refer to all local Pygmies. Likewise, the Kongo word Bambenga is used in Congo

I can totally relate to that.