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The Batwa Indigenous peoples lived in the Kahuzi-Biega forests of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo for centuries before Belgian colonial rule imposed formal change in 1937 with the establishment of the Zoological and Forest Reserve of Mount Kahuzi. The Batwa were never consulted nor compensated as the legal status of their ancestral lands changed. Colonial […]
A chief from the Bakanga clan of Batwa living within view of Mount Kahuzi was asked in the 1970s to help delineate a boundary using surveyor’s chains. He agreed, not knowing that he was being made to participate in sealing his own fate. According to his son, by the time he understood what was happening, […]
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