Africa has so many problems and at times it seems that nothing good ever come out of that continent. And I know that’s not really true, there are a lot of good things happening there. However, the bad stuff can be astoundingly depressing and heart breaking.
Case in point… I read all these stories concerning the various trouble spots around Africa, I keep asking myself, why to Africans hate their own with so much vengeance? I don’t think this question has a simple answer and this post is certainly not the final answer to the question. If anything, this is just the beginning as I intend to look at this question in light of the various happenings around Africa…
But for now, I want to start with this article titled ‘Pygmies beg UN for aid to save them from Congo cannibals‘ states in part…
“Pygmy leaders have called on the UN to set up an international tribunal to put government and rebel fighters from the Democratic Republic of Congo on trial for acts of cannibalism against their people”
The article continues…
Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN’s Indigenous People’s Forum that during the four-year civil war his people had been hunted down and eaten.
“In living memory, we have seen cruelty, massacres, and genocide, but we have never seen human beings hunted down as though they were game animals,” he said.
“Pygmies are being pursued in the forests. People have been eaten. This is nothing more, nothing less, than a crime against humanity.”
As you continue to read the article, some of the reasons given for this practice of cannibalism includes old hatred of the Pygmies and superstitious beliefs by the Lendu militia, one of the many rebel groups operating in the area.
To be honest, I think one of the biggest reasons Africa is being held back from moving onto the 21st century are these problems of tribal hatred (as was clearly seen in Rwanda) and certain customs and practices based on indigenous African religions or superstitions that simply make no sense and/or clearly un-biblical. I think about the practice of men being forced to take widows, whose husbands dies of AIDS, as their wives as demanded by their tribal customs. Or the washing of bodies of those who dies of Ebola, a super contagious disease.
But even from a human perspective, cannibalism simply crosses the line. Once you start going down that path, I think you have lost just about any semblance of humanity that you may have once possessed…
I will be updating this post to let you know if the UN actually did anything about this issue…
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