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Congo pygmies say they invented cannibalism claims against ex-rebel leader.
(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: EDDY ISANGO
Pygmies in Congo say they invented cannibalism claims against an ex-rebel leader because government authorities had forced them to make the allegations, three pygmies said Monday, claiming to speak for their community.
The pygmies' claims that ex-rebels ate at least a dozen of their people during unrest in 2003 helped prompt an International Criminal Court investigation in Congo.
Congo's government and U.N. officials both investigated the 2003 unrest, and both subsequently supported the allegations of cannibalism, rape, torture and other abuses by rebel forces.
But on Monday, three pygmies claimed that Congo's old government had pressured them to level the cannibalism allegations against a rebel movement led by Jean-Pierre Bemba.
The pygmies spoke at a news conference called by Bemba, who is now the country's vice president under a power sharing agreement that ended the nation's conflict.
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