His face daubed with streaks of white chalk and wearing traditional strings of beads and amulets to protect him from death, a young Miya-Miya combatant rests in an abandoned house in the old mining village of Kananda.
Believing that they are protected by juju spirits, the Miya-Miya of Katanga are renowned for widespread use of child soldiers, rape and cannibalism as weapons of war. (image by Alixandra Fazzina)
His face daubed with streaks of white chalk and wearing traditional strings of beads and amulets to protect him from death, a young Miya-Miya combatant rests in an abandoned house in the old mining village of Kananda. Believing that they are protected by juju spirits, the Miya-Miya of Katanga are renowned for widespread use of child soldiers, rape and cannibalism as weapons of war.
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