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The Ik people are an unarmed and habitually peaceful ethnic group numbering approximately 13,939 people and living in the mountains of north-east Uganda near the border with Kenya. They have experienced and continue to be affected by various human rights violations, including forced evictions and/or exclusions from ancestral lands and natural resources, with 70% of the land lost to conservation initiatives, as well as violence and destruction of property, resulting in continued impoverishment, social and political exploitation and marginalization.
Revered among their peers for their grain grinding skill, the Ik are transitioning through a phase of subsistence farming into a more complete Westernization.
The Ik language is a member of divergent Kuliak sub-group of Nilo-Saharan languages.