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Living Witnesses Of Gypsy History: Batwa-Twa Gypsies 25/11/2011

Peoples, whose animal stocks, lands and forest lands in where they hunted and gathered were captured mostly started to subsist on peripatetic ways of subsistence and became a part of Gypsy Universal Nation. Twa-Batwa Gypsies who started to use peripatetic ways of subsistence when their natural resources were captured in last 60 years are living witnesses of the process.

They are the indigenous people of central Africa. Batwa-Twa natural human beings who subsisted on huntering and gathering for thousands of years in great rain forests of the central Africa are living in Uganda, Konga, Rwanda, Burundi today. They have been evicted from rain forests they lived in for thousands of years since 1960's on account of the fact that natural parks would be built there. So they lost their natural resources. They started to subsist on peripatetic ways of subsistence to survive.

Batwa-Twa Gypsies who subsist on pottery, basket-making, musicianship, dancing, entertainment face many problems which other peoples who are members of Gypsy Universal Nation face. Twa-Batwa Gypsies having real problems about accession to education, health services and housing conditions complain to be accepted as 2th class citizens in the countries they live in.

History of Batwa-Twa Gypsies, who are living witnesses of a victimhood shared by many different peoples through the human history, in last 60 years enlightens general history of Gypsy Universal Nation.

Source: Ali Mezarcıoğlu Çingenelerin Kitabı Cinius Yayınları (Ali Mezarcıoğlu The Book of Gypsies Cinius Publishing Company)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Batwa Gypsies' natural resources were captured in 1960s. They were hunterer and gatherer for thousands of years.
Batwa people started to subsist on pottery, basket-making when they losed their natural resources.
Batwa Gypsies subsisting on basket making.