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==== Ethnic conflict ==== {{Main|Batwa–Luba clashes}} In Northern [[Katanga Province]] starting in 2013, the Pygmy Batwa people, whom the [[Luba people]] often exploit and allegedly enslave,<ref name=hrw1115/> rose up into militias, such as the "Perci" militia, and attacked Luba villages.<ref name=nytimes0416>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/in-congo-wars-are-small-and-chaos-is-endless.html?_r=0|title=In Congo, Wars Are Small and Chaos Is Endless|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=7 March 2017|date=30 April 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506194515/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/in-congo-wars-are-small-and-chaos-is-endless.html?_r=0|archive-date=6 May 2017}}</ref> A Luba militia known as "Elements" counterattacked. More than a thousand people were killed in the first eight months of 2014 alone<ref name=irin0717>{{cite news|url=http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2017/07/11/displaced-congolese-civilians-sent-back-widening-war|title=Displaced Congolese civilians sent back to a widening war|publisher=irinnews.com|access-date=18 July 2017|date=11 July 2017}}</ref> with the number of displaced people estimated to be 650,000 as of December 2017.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/democratic-republic-congo-communal-violence-malnutrition-tanganyika |title=Stricken by communal violence and malnutrition in Tanganyika, Democratic Republic of the Congo |journal=[[International Committee of the Red Cross]] |date=29 December 2017 |access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref><ref name=hrw1115>{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/08/11/dr-congo-ethnic-militias-attack-civilians-katanga|title=DR Congo: Ethnic Militias Attack Civilians in Katanga|publisher=Human Rights Watch|date=11 August 2015|access-date=7 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308043544/https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/08/11/dr-congo-ethnic-militias-attack-civilians-katanga|archive-date=8 March 2017}}</ref> The weapons used in the conflict are often arrows and axes, rather than guns.<ref name=nytimes0416/> [[File:Ota Benga at Bronx Zoo.jpg|thumb|[[Ota Benga]] at the [[Bronx Zoo]] in 1906]]
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