About One of The Most Mysterious Tribes in the World

After mutual mass killings against members of the Tutsi and Hutu in 1994 in Rwanda, it was introduced ban on mentioning the ethnic name. In this country in the east of Africa, highlighting ethnic identity in any form has become a taboo subject. Leaders in the capital Kigali justified declared ethnicity great evil in the future to prevent possible conflicts.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial discrimination of the United Nations, however, warns that this measure threatens to grow into a current danger: pygmy people Batwa, one of the oldest nations on the planet, is threatened with extinction.

Sometimes this tribe meant something to the people of Rwanda. Before white colonialists came, some members of the nation Batwa lived in the royal palace.

Pygmies were hunters, gatherers and soldiers. Among them are talented art craftsmen and players, and are often performed at events royal palace.

Now they are left without a homeland.

The areas inhabited partly converted into agricultural areas, and later Uganda and Rwanda declared forested volcanic area on the west of the country a natural reserve. Hunters were expelled from national parks and today most live as beggars.

American Diane Fossey, who fought for the protection of mountain gorillas in Rwanda, had an infamous role in that: her people are persecuted Batwa in their hunting grounds and scaring them to death.

It is estimated that in Rwanda today, there are still only a few tens of thousands of members of this nation. Without targeted measures to protect threatened with extinction, warns the UN.

No one in Rwanda, in fact, does not know exactly where they live and how many of its members exist today.

Their life is particularly complicated by the authorities of Rwanda, which after bloody ethnic conflict and genocide in 1994 formally abolished the ethnic community.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in New York warned of the danger of extinction of the Batwa nation. Interviewed experts with the authorities in Rwanda showed that the country is not ready for any change. While representatives of the UN spoke about the difficulties faced by the Pygmy people of Batwa, Rwanda negotiators have consistently talked about the "marginalized groups".

Name Batwa never once mentioned.