https://freerepublic.com/tag/mayimayi/ en-us Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:11:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/819654/posts Thu 9 Jan 2003 Pygmies being eaten by rebels in Congo's ongoing war, UN reveals JAMES ASTILL IN NAIROBI REBEL soldiers are massacring and eating pygmies in the dense forests of north-east Congo, UN investigators said yesterday. A UN team has spent the past week investigating allegations of cannibalism in remote Ituri province, where fresh fighting between several rebel groups has displaced around 150,000 people in the past month. Many of the displaced tell of rebel fighters capturing and butchering pygmies across the front-line, said Manoddje Mounoubai, a spokesman for the UN cease-fire monitoring mission in Congo yesterday. "The UN... thescotsman.co.uk https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/819654/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:11:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084315/posts U.N. Investigating Reports of 100 Civilians Massacred in Congo The Associated Press 2-24-04 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The U.N. Congo mission is investigating reports of massacres of about 100 civilians and seven soldiers by Mayi-Mayi fighters in southeast Congo, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday. The killings have allegedly occurred in Katanga province, 960 miles from the capital Kinshasa, spokesman Hamadoun Toure said. Congo's military confirmed massacres of civilians since January. It gave no more details. The government and U.N. mission in Congo are trying to assert control nationwide after a five-year war that split the country, about the size of... AP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084315/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:07:28 GMT