A new report has documented a deadly three-year campaign by park guards and soldiers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to expel Indigenous Batwa people from their native land in the sprawling Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
The investigation by London-based Minority Rights Group International (MRG), compiled witness testimony from more than 550 people. It discovered that at least 20 Batwa people were allegedly killed by “joint contingents” of park guards and Congolese soldiers in three waves of violent attacks between 2019 to 2021.
