Original sentence: Both sides of the war regarded them as "subhuman" and some say their flesh can confer magical powers.During the Congo Civil War, Pygmies were hunted down like game animals and eaten.Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, has asked the UN Security Council to recognise cannibalism as a crime against humanity and an act of genocide.UN human rights activists reported in 2003 that rebels had carried out acts of cannibalism