STATEMENT BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF INDIGENOUS PEUL PEOPLES MBORORO AND BA-AKA PYGMES OF CENTRAL AFRICA BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS IN GENEVA. TUESDAY 05 JULY 2022

STATEMENT BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF INDIGENOUS PEUL PEOPLES
  MBORORO AND BA-AKA PYGMES OF CENTRAL AFRICA BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF
  UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS IN GENEVA.
  TUESDAY 05 JULY 2022
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  15TH SESSION: EXPERT MECHANISM ON PEOPLES' RIGHTS
  INDIGENOUS
  ITEM 9: VIOLENCE AGAINST PEUL MBORORO AND BAAKA PYGMEE WOMEN
  FROM CENTRAL AFRICA
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  Hello ladies and gentlemen.
  I am ISSA BI AMADOU peul mbororo from the Central African Republic.
  I am here to represent the interests of the indigenous peoples of the Republic
  Central African at this Session.
  As you probably know, the Central African Republic is going through a crisis
  deep military-political since 2013.
  This crisis is one of the crises where man has demonstrated his cruel and animal character ever
  observed in the country.
  ladies and gentleman
  Fulani Mbororo women were the first innocent victims who suffered
  degrading inhuman treatment for those who were lucky enough to survive, and the crimes
  the most odious on those who have been killed, disemboweled or burned alive.
  I still have the macabre memory of these unbearable heinous crimes and the bodies of
  pregnant women disemboweled and others burned alive in their huts with all their
  children.  I have this with my own eyes.
  I still have this memory of my niece SAMSIA who will soon be nine (09) years old and who saw
  his mother FADIMATOU to die cut to pieces by the ANTIBALAKA criminals
  the entrance to the town of Boali in the CAR.
  It's horrible.  This is an example of horrific violence against an Indigenous woman.
  We say: Never again!
  In January 2014, SAMSIA's mother, who was in a vehicle looking for
  escape, was not so lucky, because the ANTIBALAKA criminals had blocked the way
  at the entrance to the town of BOALII, in search of Mbororo Fulani considered as

enemies because of their belonging to the same ethnic group as certain chiefs of
 war.
 But before dying SAMSIA's mother had the reflex to save her daughter by handing her over
 to another non-Fulani woman by saying to her: "if they kill me, bring my daughter back to my
 family in BOALI”.  This is unfortunately what happened, a few
 minutes later.
 I was the first parent to receive SAMSIA from the hand of its saviors, a family of
 pastors of the Baptise Ngoubagara Church in Bangui.  This religious family, protected
 the child until it was handed over to the family that I represented.
 Ladies and gentlemen
 Today some of those responsible for these heinous crimes that I have just described are
 arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court in the HAGUE.  Others are handed over to justice
 Central African.
 It is for this reason that I make the following recommendations:
 To the United Nations:
 1. Assist victims and families of victims to travel to THE HAGUE
 their testimonies and demand justice.
 2. Create a United Nations fund to support indigenous women
 victims of military and military-political crises all over the world.
 To the Government of the Central African Republic:
 1. To seek, arrest and bring to justice all those responsible for the crimes and
 violations of women's rights from the 2013-2022 crisis.
 2. To expedite the ongoing judgment process before the Special Criminal Court and the
 Criminal Court of Bangui.
 3. To create a national compensation fund for indigenous women who are victims of
 military-political crises and to empower the people in its management.
 Thank you.
 Amadou Issa bi Amadou
 Central African Republics
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 Email: amadou.issabi66@gmail.com