DRC - ​​​​​​​Ituri: an unknown and mysterious disease kills pygmies near Mambasa

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Ituri: an unknown and mysterious disease kills pygmies near Mambasa

May 13, 2020 Society 0

Pygmies installed in the TP32 / 52 camp 3 kilometers from the center of Mambasa in the province of Ituri, eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are currently victims of an unknown disease whose origin seems mysterious.

Indeed, the day of May 07, a group of these first citizens of the DRC had gone hunting in the bush where they had encountered a trap with game. They had taken the latter and after its consumption in the camp, they began to be attacked by a disease not identified by the carers, according to the explanations given this Wednesday May 13 at L'INTERVIEW.CD by John Vuleveryo, defender of the rights human rights and member of the Convention for the Respect of Human Rights (CRDH) Mambasa office.

The CRDH ask the authorities to address this issue which “undermines the rights to life, which is nevertheless enshrined in both national and international legal instruments”.

Remember that since May 08, 4 people have died and pygmies are starting to empty this camp.

The police for their part announced that they had arrested the alleged perpetrator of the trap whose game would cause deaths.

C. Mulakirwa / L'INTERVIEW.CD

https://linterview.cd/ituri-une-mal...-mysterieuse-tue-des-pygmees-pres-de-mambasa/

 

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Ituri: four pygmies die after eating stolen meat in Mambasa

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Four pygmies from the same camp died within 3 days. 2 others in critical condition and several live in fear and flight.

According to one of the survivors, they ate the meat of a porcupine stolen from a Bantu trap when they were hunting.

They claim that the perpetrator of this doom is nothing other than the owner of the stolen game. Because according to them, they continue, the latter had actually predicted the curse, just after their crime. For now, the alleged perpetrator has disappeared from the wild. It is his mother who is in the hands of the security authorities. She admits the fact of her son, unfortunately, she does not know how her son deals with such situations.

Worse, for the moment the health track has just returned a first result of the medical expertise which comes out negative and dismissing the thesis of an epidemic. There is strong tension within this camp, located in the village TP 32/25 at 2km from Mambasa, on the Bunia axis. Thus, the first inhabitant of the DRCongo of this territory cries that this gentleman has mercy on them.

Vagheni Vinywasiki from Beni.

https://lesvolcansnews.net/2020/05/...res-consommation-dune-viande-volee-a-mambasa/