Effacer le tableau
Effacer le tableau (French pronunciation: [efɑse lə tablo], literally "erase the board" or "clean the slate") was the operational name given to the genocide of the Bambuti pygmies by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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| Part of the Second Congo War and Violence against pygmies | |
Map of Ituri Province within the DRC. | |
| Location | Mambasa and the Ituri rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Date | October 2002 to January 2003 |
Attack type | Genocidal massacre, Ethnic cleansing, cannibalism, war rape |
| Deaths | 60,000 to 70,000 (40% of the Eastern Congo's Pygmy population killed) |
| Victims | Bambuti pygmies |
| Perpetrators | Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (Jean-Pierre Bemba) |
| Motive | Territorial conquest of the North Kivu province of the DRC |
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