Pride restored to the people who lost their forest

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 20, 2007| Author: Michael McCarthy | Copyright information

Cecile Bahutu, sitting in the small village she could now call home, explained to me the extent of the prejudice against her people. It was so great, she said, that they had come to doubt their own worth.

"We thought we had no right to know any other people, or to come close to other people," she said. "We thought we had no right to be treated in any hospital. If people gave us any food, they themselves would not eat from the food they had given us. But nowadays, here, things have chan...

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