In 2003 , Sinafasi Makelo , a representative of Mbuti pygmies , told the UN 's Indigenous People 's Forum that during the Congo Civil War , his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals . In neighboring North Kivu province there has been cannibalism by a death squad known as '' Les Effaceurs '' ( " the erasers " ) who wanted to clear the land of people to open it up for mineral exploitation . Both sides of the war regarded them as " subhuman " and some say their flesh can confer magical powers
Les Effaceurs
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African Pygmies