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But even their grand design looks like a miniature next to the plans for the Qatari peninsula.So far, visitors report, while the individual sites have been earmarked, building has not begun. Sheikh Saud is, however, adopting an increasingly high profile as he prepares the ground. In March he joined his cousin, Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, to open the third annual Doha Cultural Festival with a fraction of the thousands of objects bought in the salerooms on display.In his speech, Sheikh Saud spoke of their shared ambition to make this tiny territory and its 120,000 people "the crossroad of cultures and civilisations of all brotherly and friendly states". A series of educational programmes - headed by the emir's wife, Sheikha Mouzah - are being run to enthuse Qataris about both Islamic and other cultures. "Where the Bambuti have been forcibly displaced from their villages, they have frequently had to live for prolonged periods unprotected in the forest, exposed to wild animals, disease and starvation."Until now, attempts to seek redress from Congolese authorities have been in vain.

Mr Lattimer's group wants him to include the fate of the Bambuti in his investigation. After strong threats and blows my husband finally accepted and we did it in front of my mother and in front of them. It was horrible."Some Congolese believe that back pain or other ailments can be cured by sleeping with Bambuti women, which has been given as an explanation for rape, but the report charges that the high incidence of rape and the systematic use of mass rape constitute a crime against humanity.Cecile N. from the region of North Kivu, was one of nine Bambuti women chopping firewood when about 20 rebel soldiers from the Rwandan-backed RCD-Goma appeared, armed with rifles and knives.

She said that after orders from their commander: "The soldiers raped us in turn; at least two or three soldiers for one woman."Minority Rights Group International is calling for a full investigation by the International Criminal Court into "persecution, extermination and other crimes against humanity" against the Bambuti population, with a view to prosecuting those responsible.The prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced last month that he intended to investigate crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing on the Ituri war, in which an estimated 60,000 people have been killed. Then they raped my mother and me, one after the other, each by two of them."Afterwards they asked my husband to sleep with me in front of them to see how we make love. Another ran that way, they shot her - even the women."They captured the young children, gathered them and held them until daylight. Then they put some of them in a mortar and pounded them to death They destroyed the huts and set them on fire. The people were also burned."Pindjaone B., from the same village, was already hiding in the forest with her husband and mother when four soldiers came across them.

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