Minority Rights Group International released its annual report Thursday in which six of the top 10 countries listed in its Peoples Under Threat index are located in Africa. Group members say discrimirift goldnatory government policies and long-standing rivalries over resources are the major factors that make particular ethnic groups and communities targets of violence and neglect on the continent.
The London-based human rights organization uses statistical analysis in its index to identify ethnirift goldc groups and other minority communities around the world most at risk of mass killings.
Somalia
Topping the list of this year's Peoples Under Threat index is war-torn Somalia, where the Bantu minority group is particularly vulnerable.
Mohamed Hassan Daryeel is head of the Somali Minority Rights Forum. He says the Bantus, who are agriculturalists (farmers), are considered to be second-class citizens whose physical features are distinctive.
"Socially, they are a segregated community," said Daryeel. "Their ethnicity is different from our features. [Somalis] traditionally looked to them as slaves."
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