Pygmy groups in the Congo are being exploited by the country’s ethnic Bantu people, and are treated like “pets” and sometimes even subject to slavery, according to a Congolese human rights group.
The Congo’s indigenous pygmies “are considered by Bantu people as property in the same way that… pets are,” Roch Euloge Nzobo, program director at the Congolese Human Rights Observatory (OCDH), told Agence France-Presse.
