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 systematic extermination of the Bambuti pygmies by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).[1]

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Effacer le tableau
Part of Second Congo War and Violence against pygmies
Map of North Kivu within the DRC.
Map of Ituri Rainforest
Location	North Kivu and Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date	October 2002 to January 2003
Attack type	Genocidal massacre, Ethnic cleansing, cannibalism, war rape[1]
Deaths	60,000[1][2] to 70,000[2] (40% of the Eastern Congo's Pygmy population killed)[N 1]
Victims	Bambuti pygmies
Perpetrators	Movement for the Liberation of Congo (Jean-Pierre Bemba)
Motive	Territorial conquest of the North Kivu province of the DRC

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