RWANDA: Batwa condemn ignorance of their problems

The Rwandan Batwa pygmy people have demanded respect for their rights, saying that ignorance about their problems is the "biggest evil" to overcome. The president of the Batwa community Zephyrin Kalimba told a conference on the indigenous people of Africa, held in Kigali, that his people had been denied their land rights and evicted from their ancestral homes.