Expulsion of Rwanda's Batwa people from their forest habitat has forced them to live as beggars and put them in danger of "extinction," a United Nations human rights expert has said.
The comments by Evelyne Hohoueto Afiwa-Kindena were made during the course of a periodic UN committee review of Rwanda's compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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