16th October: In East African nations like Tanzania, albinos have to deal with both the medical issues they face and something which may be much more deadly: witch doctors. Witch doctors work from the superstition that an albino’s body parts can lead to power and wealth. Read more here.
15th October: A middle age woman, name withheld, has abandoned three of her children near the CRARN Children Centre, Eket. The children who were in good health, apart from minor injuries and scars of old wounds inflicted on them as a result of intermittent torture and wild exorcisms performed in churches, said their mother brought them to a nearby market, adjacent to the centre and ran away with a bike man who brought them there. Read more here.
15th October: A 55-year-old woman was hacked to death by a youth who suspected her of practicing black magic on him in Odisha’s Sundergarh district. The police arrested Nayak Munda (28) who allegedly committed crime in highly intoxicated condition. The accused was under the impression that he suffered due to the black magic being done by the woman. Read more here.
October the 17th: The Police Divisional Headquarters in Eket Akwa Ibom State have rescued two children from the hands of ‘witch’ killers who are in the habit of attacking and killing children abandoned on the streets by parents after being dubbed witches in the churches. The children who were male and female, age 8 and 6 are from Ibeno Local Government Area were rescued by the police on a tipoff by some concerned citizens who witnessed how the children were tied up in a for hours stake and beaten with sticks and cables were later taken to the Child’s Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN). Read more here.
15th October: A three-and-a-half year old boy’s body was found inside a sack dumped in a village in Sirsa district with police suspecting it to be a case of ‘sacrificial killing’ by some “tantrik” (witch doctor). Arun went missing under mysterious circumstances when he was playing near his house. Read more here.
October the 16th: A tribal village on the Majuli island in Assam has kept 35 people — several of them women — virtually under house arrest for the past 10 days before a “purification” ceremony absolves them of sins ranging from alleged killing to harming fellow residents through witchcraft. Read more here.
15th October: On Sunday morning, people in the area found Rathinasamy dead and mistook it as a human sacrifice as the man’s body had many cuts and injuries. The rumour of a human sacrifice at Mettur spread in the area among the people, causing panic and fear. Since, the presiding deity of the temple was Muniappan, people started believing that it could have been a human sacrifice. Read more here.
Anaclet smiles and looks lovingly at his young son, but the wind blowing off nearby Lake Tanganyika can’t cool his feverish mind. He worries deeply about the safety of Jeff, who is different from most people. Father and son are refugees from Democratic Republic of the Congo, but they haven’t fled arbitrary violence or war like most of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Great Lakes region. They are on the run because bad people want to kill six-year-old Jeff, so that they can harvest his organs for witchcraft. Read more here.
October the 14th: Top European church and government officials engaged in the ritual rape and murder of children have been named by a new group of eyewitnesses, whose accounts accord with public statements made last May by cult survivor Toos Nijenhuis of Holland. On October the 7th, these new witnesses delivered notarized affidavits to the Central Office of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State and to lawyers in Geneva that describe their observation of or participation in the ritual rape, torture and murder of children as young as five years old at private estates in Holland and France. The witnesses name two Catholic Cardinals, a French judge, Belgian priests and members of the Dutch and British Royal families as participants in these crimes. Read more here.
Briefing The Independent, a regional executive (name withheld) said he had the shock of his life on Tuesday, October 1, when he stepped on a foamy doormat, after he locked the party office and was going home. According to him, he felt an excruciating pain when his feet landed on the mat, something which was very unusual. The party officer stated that, after feeling some heat that very evening when he got home, he called to inform his God father about the situation. He was told he had stepped on a juju. Read more here.
