The NY Daily News stuns the senses with Say troops ate Pygmies:
NAIROBI, Kenya - A United Nations team is investigating reports that Congolese rebel troops have killed and eaten Pygmies in northeastern Congo.Hey, it's Africa.
"The UN is taking these accusations very seriously," said Manodje Mounoubai of the UN mission in Congo. Another agency source described the cannibalism charges as credible.
The two rebel factions often hire Pygmies to hunt food for them in the forests as they fight to oust the rival rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation from mineral-rich areas of Ituri province, a UN official said.
If the expert hunters return empty-handed, rebel troops kill and eat them, the official said.
