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Reading that made my ribs hurt, of all places.
As of 2007!
Historically, the Pygmy have always been viewed as inferior by both colonial authorities and the village dwelling Bantu tribes.[30] This has translated into systematic discrimination. One early example was the capture of Pygmy children during the period of the Congo Free State, which exported Pygmy children to zoos throughout Europe, including the world's fair in the United States in 1907.[30] Pygmies are often evicted from their land and given the lowest paying jobs. At a state level, Pygmies are not considered citizens by most African states and are refused identity cards, deeds to land, health care and proper schooling.[citation needed] Government policies and multinational corporations involved in massive deforestation have exacerbated this problem by forcing more Pygmies out of their traditional homelands and into villages and cities where they often are marginalized, impoverished and abused by the dominant culture.[citation needed]
Today there are roughly 500,000 Pygmies left in the rain-forest of Central Africa.[30] This population is under threat as poverty, intermarriage with Bantu peoples, Westernization, and deforestation all gradually destroy their way of life and culture along with their genetic uniqueness.
The greatest environmental problem facing Pygmies seems to be the loss of their traditional homeland, the tropical forests of Central Africa. In several countries such as Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo this is due to deforestation and the desire of several governments in Central Africa to evict the Pygmies from their forest homeland in order to cash in on quick profits from the sale of hardwood and the resettlement of farmers onto the cleared land. In some cases, as in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this conflict is violent. Certain groups, such as the Hutus of the Interahamwe, wish to eliminate the Pygmy and take the resources of the forest as a military conquest, using the resources of the forest for military as well as economic advancement.[30] Since the Pygmies rely on the forest for their physical as well as cultural survival, as these forests disappear, so do the Pygmy.
A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village Along with Raja Sheshardi, the fPcN-Global.org website had conducted research on the pygmies. The human rights organization states that as the forest has receded under logging activities, its original inhabitants have been pushed into populated areas to join the formal economy, working as casual laborers or on commercial farms and being exposed to new diseases.[31] This shift has brought them into closer contact with neighboring ethnic communities whose HIV levels are generally higher. This has led to the spread of HIV/AIDS into the pygmy group.
Since poverty has become very prevalent in the Pygmy communities, sexual exploitation of indigenous women has become a common practice. Commercial sex has been bolstered by logging, which often places large groups of male laborers in camps which are set up in close contact with the Pygmy communities.
Human rights groups have also reported widespread sexual abuse of indigenous women in the conflict-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite these risks, Pygmy populations generally have poor access to health services and information about HIV. The British medical journal, The Lancet, published a review showing that Pygmy populations often had worse access to health care than neighboring communities.[32] According to the report, even where health care facilities exist, many people do not use them because they cannot pay for consultations and medicines, they do not have the documents and identity cards needed to travel or obtain hospital treatment, and they are subjected to humiliating and discriminatory treatment.[31]
Studies in Cameroon and ROC in the 1980s and 1990s showed a lower prevalence of HIV in pygmy populations than among neighboring ones, but recent increases have been recorded. One study found that the HIV prevalence among the Baka pygmies in eastern Cameroon went from 0.7% in 1993 to 4% in 2003.[31]
Party Crasher
Here's an interesting article regarding the albino prosecution
I once saw an interview of an albino survivor. He described how the witch doctors & their gangs would often lay siege to houses, demanding from families to surrender their albino members so they would chop-em up. Mind you, they usually didn't bother to kill their victims. Before or after the deed.
edited 10th Sep '14 9:01:16 PM by LogoP
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
United Earth
I'm still having trouble believing that Medicine Murder is actually a thing.
Party Crasher
Yep. What's worse is that, at times, the victim's own family may be the ones to mutilate him/her.
This is also an interesting video.
edited 10th Sep '14 9:13:19 PM by LogoP
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
United Earth
There seems to be a genocide going on in West Papua as we speak!
I don't know what's worse: the fact that it's not the first time Indonesians do something like this (or try to do something) - e.g. Timor-Leste, or the fact that Australia backs them.
edited 1st Feb '15 7:16:00 AM by Quag15
United Earth
Unlike with ISIS, that Australia's backing them means that Western governments can actually effectively counter this, if they manage to get off their hypocritical asses.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Party Crasher
Why are they even doing this? Is it out of genuine racial hatred or the Indonesians want to make a quick land grab for developement purposes?
Or is it because of this?
In terms of recent events, it's the latter, though I wouldn't rule out the former two from the list.
Party Crasher
Yeah, I mean, the Papuans must have a good reason to want to secede so badly.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
One just might
The Papuans never wanted to be in in the first place.
If a chicken crosses the road and nobody else is around to see it, does the road move beneath the chicken instead?
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Might be nitpicking, but the thread title is missing at least one comma for improved readability, i.e. it should be either "Institutionalized Racism, Discrimination and Ethnic Cleansing Worldwide" or "Institutionalized Racism, Discrimination, and Ethnic Cleansing Worldwide".
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
A procrastination in of itself
Doesn't it depend on if it's written in British or American English?
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
The Pope has called the killing of Armenians by the Ottomans as genocide. With predictable responses from the Turks, namely summoning their envoy from the Vatican.
United Earth
Why was it that they couldn't own up to it, again? Something about territory restitution? Who the heck would try to force them to? Or is it one of them "polite fictions"?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
HGW XX/7
It will always sound hollow.
"Sorry about the genocide, guys."
"OK, you're forgiven, can we please have Mt. Ararat back?"
"...no."
And then there's this:
- Adolf Hitler, Obersalzburg, 22nd August 1939.
edited 12th Apr '15 8:08:49 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
United Earth
I can't parse your point...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
A successful genocide simply becomes the 'facts on the ground', and is tacitly accepted by the world.
United Earth
It wasn’t just the Armenians: The other 20th century massacres we ignore
HGW XX/7
I'm always suspicious when people say something is being "ignored", because its often not true. The Holodomor, for example, has been extensively commemorated, especially during the Cold War, when it was used as another example of Red barbarism. Japanese denial of the Nanking massacre is extensively reported.
Perhaps that's because German victims of expulsion are not in the same category as the victims of German genocide and empire-building?
Suharto's killings, however, probably do deserve to be on that list, although because they were primarily political they don't get the moniker genocide which seems to draw attention.
edited 25th Apr '15 9:27:59 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Party Crasher
The killings of Assyrians and Greeks have been sweeped under the rug, though. While it's certainly true that they didn't reach the extent of the Armenian Genocide, the numbers were still petty high. Often exceeding the 500,000 mark.
Yet you hardly hear about them. Even in days like this.
edited 25th Apr '15 9:35:11 AM by LogoP
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
HGW XX/7
Perhaps. I remember being taught about them when we studied WWI in school, although it was generally in the aid of proving that the Ottomans were of barbaric kebab and Gallipoli was in some way heroic. I suppose the world is not Scotland though.
edited 25th Apr '15 9:43:24 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
United Earth
You'd think the Greeks would make a point of raising a stink over it, but it seems like they don't hope to gain territory from Turkey acknowledging it, which I'm told (by Turks) is the main reason Turkey refuses to acknowledge the Armenians'; because they don't want to give land to Armenia.
Apparently, just invoking the accomplished fact on the ground and saying "we killed your ancestors for this land and won't give it back" isn't an option, for some reason. Which kind of puzzles me. The Israeli do it without shame or guilt, among many, many others.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Party Crasher
The Pontian Genocide is widely remembered and acknowledged throughout Greece.note There's even a remembrance day for it.
The reasons it's not as widely acknowledged are plenty. In addition to it simply not reaching the grand scale of the Armenian one.
However, territory has nothing to do with it. All land disputes between Greece & Turkey, that don't involve useless, tiny rocks on the far east side of the Aegean, were solved by the mid-1930s.
edited 25th Apr '15 9:58:16 AM by LogoP
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
I've read on an article that a large chunk of the prejudice against Pygmies comes from the archaic belief that they posses some sort of "dark supernatural powers".
Quite similar to the belief that albino bones bring luck & wealth. Which has led to the death and mutilation of hundrends of thousands of albino people in Africa.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.