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Q85
(IAS/2004)
Geography › World Human & Economic Geography › Global humanitarian issues
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In which one of the following countries did an ethnic violence between the communities of Hema and Lendu result in the death of hundreds of people?
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The violent inter-communal clashes between the Hema and Lendu took place in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), erupting in June 1999 and leading to widespread human rights abuses, large-scale displacement and substantial loss of life. Amnesty and other reports attribute the crisis to ethnic mobilisation, manipulation by armed groups and competition over land and resources, noting that the conflict resulted in hundreds to many thousands of deaths and massive displacement of civilians in northeastern DRC. The Ituri (Hema–Lendu) conflict is a well-documented episode of ethnic violence within the DRC rather than in Indonesia, Nigeria or Zambia [2].
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- [1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/afr620062003en.pdf
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ituri_conflict
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