PRINCE HARRY'S CHARITY LINKED TO ATROCITIES AGAINST THE BAKA
The UK's Mail on Sunday has today published an in-depth #investigation into reports of appalling atrocities being committed against Indigenous #Baka people in the #CongoRainforest.
The details are horrific.
Stories like Ella Ene's, who was brutally raped by a park ranger while holding her young baby.
And it is shocking - but not at all surprising - that this is happening in the name of #conservation.
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Like so many other Indigenous people in Africa and Asia, the #Baka have been evicted from their #forest after it was turned into a national park - in this case, the #OdzalaKokouaNationalPark.
And now their #land - the park - is patrolled by rangers, with orders to keep the Baka out. They enforce this with a reign of terror - #beatings, #assault, and #rape are all detailed in the report.
The Baka's precious rainforest - carefully guarded and cared for by them for millennia -
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#LandBack 🌴🦂
is now 'managed' by the multi-million dollar organization #AfricanParks.
#Mining permits have been sold off INSIDE the park by the #government, while #logging concessions surround it.
Meanwhile the forest's rightful owners are cast aside, left to live in miserable conditions by the side of logging roads when they escape the #brutalities of the rangers.
One Baka man, Eyaya, says: "If a Baka enters the forest and comes across eco-guards, they will #torture him to death."
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No wonder the Baka say: "The #forest is ours, but now it's under the control of others."
The #Baka urgently need your backing to fight these #abuses. Please tell #AfricanParks ' funders that they should withdraw their #funding until the Baka are allowed to return to the park and live there as they wish.
- Survival International
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#GreenGenocide: The land rights of the Indigenous Baka are being violated by @AfricanParks. I just sent an e-mail asking the funders and supporters of destructive conservation projects to stop violating the Baka’s human rights. Will you send one too?
@anna_lillith Anna, this is the Mail on Sunday. Do not believe anything you read without doing further research.
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