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Dom påstår att bantu folkslaget i södra somalia försöker ta över deras land. Dom tror att etniska somalier kommer bli en minoritet i Somalia om ett par hundra år, Bantu härstämmar från Somaliers tidiga slavar som italienarna fritog, Somalier tillåter inte deras barn gifta sig med detta tidigare slavfolk, Dom anser inte att dessa tidigare slavar är somalier heller.
Bantuer har mycket att berätta om den somaliska rasismen och herrefolksmentaliteten.
https://minorityrights.org/minorities/bantu/
Bantu communities continue to face discrimination, including verbal abuse by members of minority clans: Bantu people are still sometimes referred to as adoon, a Somali term for ‘slave’. Al-Shabaab has also targeted Bantu communities because of their religious and cultural practices, and in January 2010 the National Somali Bantu Project (NSBP) reported that several Bantu people were killed for attending a traditional service in the Lower Juba region. The NSBP also reported the desecration of Bantu graves and forced compliance of Bantu Sheikhs with al-Shabaab doctrines, as well as numerous cultural attacks on Bantu dancing, the use of traditional medicine and the imposition of linguistic limitations including being forced to adopt Arabic names. Al-Shabaab have also reportedly recruited Bantu children as young as 10 into their militia.https://www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...2/19/Bantu.pdf
A 2002 UN report found that in comparatively peaceful times, Bantu communities in the riverine areas were actually better off than many Somalis, as their agricultural practises gave them greater food security. However, in 2000, a UN security officer told a European fact-finding mission that Somali Bantus employed on plantations worked in virtual slavery. Somali Bantu elders told the same mission that Somalia was more racist than South Africa during the apartheid era. Bantu not affiliated to specific clan families are particularly vulnerable in times of severe fighting – because of their lack of militia.
