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| Quote: | Tanzanians to name albino killers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7918960.stm
Many people with albinism are living in fear in Tanzania
Tanzania is launching a nationwide exercise urging the public to identify those behind dozens of murders of people with albinism.
In the secret "referendum", citizens will be invited to write down on slips of paper the names of those they suspect of involvement.
Legal officials will gather the names and pass them to the police.
President Jakaya Kikwete said the public should not fear retribution for naming the culprits.
The killers reportedly sell albino body parts - including limbs, hair, skin and genitals - to witchdoctors who make potions promising to make people wealthy.
In the past 15 months, 45 albinos have been slaughtered in Tanzania.
'Political ploy'
But there are concerns the process could be flawed and lead to accusations against innocent people.
Edmund Sengondo Mvungi, a law lecturer at Dar es Salaam University, told the BBC News website: "When you invite people to accuse their neighbours of such a serious crime, you give them the opportunity to settle scores.
People should feel free to name those who are behind these barbaric killings and other criminal acts within their localities
President Jakaya Kikwete
"This shouldn't be subjected to a vote-like process. It's a political ploy to please those who say the government is not doing enough to solve these murders."
President Kikwete announced the nationwide exercise during his end of the month speech on Saturday.
It will start within the next fortnight in the Lake Zone regions of Mwanza, Kagera, Mara and Shinyanga - where 44 out of the 45 albino murders have taken place.
Superstitious miners and fishermen in the region hoping to get rich quick have been accused of fuelling the demand for the potions.
The exercise will then continue in phases throughout the southern highlands, central, western, eastern, and northern regions, said the president.
"Our idea is to ensure the problem is eliminated and the country's image to the international community is cleansed," Mr Kikwete said on national TV.
"People should feel free to name those who are behind these barbaric killings and other criminal acts within their localities."
Boasting
Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, who recently wept in parliament as he bewailed the albino murders, is to launch the campaign.
The BBC's Vicky Ntetema in Dar es Salaam says it is not clear how effective the exercise will be in a society which believes in witchcraft and whose confidence in the legal system is wearing thin.
A recent BBC investigation found some witchdoctors openly boasting that they were working with the police.
Our reporter says more than 200 people - including alleged witchdoctors, their clients, hired killers and some of the victims' relatives - have been arrested in connection with the killings in the last year.
No-one has so far been convicted, she says.
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week decried the albino killings during his official visit to the country.
Last week, in neighbouring Burundi, assailants reportedly dismembered a six-year-old albino boy in his home in front of his parents, the eighth albino killing in that country.
The government issued a ban on all traditional healers in January in an effort to stop the killings and several have been arrested since then on suspicion of flouting the order.
Last month, a pastor was charged in Tanzania with being found in possession of the body parts of an albino.
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Gambians 'taken by witch doctors'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7949173.stm
Witch doctor in Mozambique (file pic)
Traditional healers, often called witch doctors, use ancient treatments
Up to 1,000 Gambian villagers have been abducted by "witch doctors" to secret detention centres and forced to drink potions, a human rights group says.
Amnesty International said some forced to drink the concoctions developed kidney problems, and two had died.
Officials in the police, army and the president's personal protection guard had accompanied the "witch doctors" in the bizarre roundup, said witnesses.
Gambia's government was unavailable to comment on the claims.
The human rights group asserted that many of those abducted were elderly.
The London-based rights group said the witch hunters, said to be from neighbouring Guinea, were invited into Gambia after the death of the president's aunt earlier this year was blamed on witchcraft.
Kate Allen, Amnesty's UK director, said hundreds of Gambians have fled to neighbouring Senegal for safety after seeing their villages attacked.
"The Gambian government has to put a stop to this campaign, investigate these attacks immediately and bring those responsible to justice," she said.
'Diarrhoea and vomiting'
Amnesty spoke to villagers who said they had been held for up to five days and forced to drink unknown substances, which they said caused them to hallucinate and behave erratically.
The paramilitary police armed with guns and shovels surrounded our village and threatened that anyone who tries to escape will be buried six feet under
Eyewitness
Many said they were then forced to confess to being witches. In some cases, they were also allegedly severely beaten, almost to the point of death.
Eyewitnesses and victims told Amnesty the "witch doctors" were from neighbouring Guinea.
As well as police, army and national intelligence agents, they were also reportedly joined by "green boys" - personal protection guards of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh.
Amnesty said the incidents took place in the Foni Kansala district, near to the president's hometown in Kanilai.
In the most recent incident, said to have taken place on 9 March, hundreds of people from Sintet village were allegedly rounded up.
One eyewitness told the rights group: "The paramilitary police armed with guns and shovels surrounded our village and threatened the villagers that anyone who tries to escape will be buried six feet under."
Three hundred men and women were allegedly randomly identified and forced at gunpoint into waiting buses, which ferried them to Kanilai.
Once there, they were stripped and forced to drink dirty herbal water and were bathed with herbs, the eyewitness said.
Many of those who drank the concoctions developed instant diarrhoea and vomiting, the eyewitness added.
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Jail over Burundi albino murders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8166273.stm
Witchdoctors claim potions made from albinos bring luck and love
One person has been sentenced to life in prison and eight others to jail in Burundi over the murder of albinos whose remains were sold for witchcraft.
Three other suspects were acquitted by the court in Ruyigi province over the the killings of at least 12 albinos.
The victims were mutilated and their body parts sold in neighbouring Tanzania for use in potions.
In addition to the killing of albinos in Burundi, more than 40 have been killed in Tanzania.
In addition to the life sentence, those convicted were jailed for between one and 15 years.
The trial is believed to be the first linked to a spate of albino killings in East Africa since 2007.
Witchdoctors in the region claim potions made with albino body parts will bring those who use them luck in love, life and business.
An association campaigning for the rights of albinos in Burundi says the authorities are now taking the killings seriously, but more needs to be done.
At least 200 people have been arrested over the trade in Tanzania, but none has been convicted.
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| jubecrew John Carter of Mars
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Death for Tanzania albino killers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8270446.stm
Albino people live in fear in Tanzania and Burundi
A court in north-western Tanzania has sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old albino boy.
They were found guilty of attacking Matatizo Dunia and severing his legs in Bukombe district in Shinyanga province.
Albino body parts are used in potions sold by witchdoctors promising wealth. Tanzania has seen an unprecedented rise in the killings in recent years.
Dozens of people have been arrested, but the justice system is notoriously slow and this is the first conviction.
There are 50 other cases of killings of albino people before the courts.
The Tanzanian government has publicly stated its desire to end the killings.
In March, President Jakaya Kikwete called on Tanzanians to come forward with any information they might have.
In July a court in neighbouring Burundi sentenced one person to life in prison and eight others to jail for the murder of albino people whose remains were sold in Tanzania.
There are estimated to be about 17,000 albino people living in Tanzania. They lack pigment in their skin and appear pale.
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 25-09-2009 13:46 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Albino killers 'should be hanged'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8273139.stm
Albino people live in fear in Tanzania and Burundi
The Tanzania Albino Society (Tas) has called for the men found guilty of killing an albino boy to be hanged publicly as a warning to others.
A court sentenced them to death for attacking the boy and severing his legs for use in witchdoctors' potions.
The BBC's John Ngahyoma in Dar es Salaam says there are more than 100 people on death row, but no-one has been executed in more than 15 years.
But Tas chairman Ernest Kimaya urged the president to endorse the sentence.
"I want other perpetrators to learn - seeing is believing," he told the BBC.
Mr Kimaya told Tanzania's Citizen newspaper that a public execution would also "show that the government is serious in its war on albino killers".
In the past two years, 53 albino people have been murdered in Tanzania.
Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale, are killed because potions made from their body parts are believed to bring good luck and wealth.
The Tanzanian government has publicly stated its desire to end the killings.
In March, President Jakaya Kikwete called on Tanzanians to come forward with any information they might have.
Reprisal fears
Officials banned witchdoctors from practising, however many have continued to work.
Living in fear: Tanzania's albinos
In hiding for exposing witchdoctors
Many of Tanzania's estimated 17,000 albino people are now living in fear, especially in villages in the north-west where the majority of the murders have occurred.
The case in Kahama on Wednesday was the first conviction in Tanzania for an albino killing.
Correspondents say there is also a fear of reprisal killings as witchdoctors and their clients wield a lot of power in their communities.
Witchdoctors in Tanzania and other parts of East Africa have made tens of thousands of dollars from selling potions and other items made from the bones, hair, skin and genitals of dead albino people.
They pay a lot of money for body parts.
In July a court in neighbouring Burundi sentenced one person to life in prison and eight others to jail for the murder of albino people whose remains were sold in Tanzania.
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Albino killers get death penalty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8338838.stm
Albino people in a safe haven in Tanzania, 01/09
Albino people live in fear throughout Tanzania
Four Tanzanians have been sentenced to death by hanging for killing an albino man last year - one of a spate of such murders in the country.
The court, in the northern town of Shinyanga, convicted them of murdering the man and removing his head and legs.
In September three men were sentenced to death for murdering an albino boy - the first such ruling in Tanzania.
Witchdoctors sell good-luck potions made from the body parts of albino people for thousands of dollars.
More than 50 albino people are thought to have been murdered in the past two years in Tanzania.
Analysts say thousands of albino people are now living in fear, especially in villages in the north-west where the majority of the murders have occurred.
The killings have also spread to neighbouring Burundi, where at least 12 people have been murdered.
The BBC's Eric Nampesya in Shinyanga says many Tanzanians are happy with the ruling because they believe it is sending a message that such killings will not be tolerated.
But he says some are questioning whether there is a bigger network of criminals behind the killings - and they want those who deal in body parts to be punished.
The four men are expected to appeal against their sentence, our reporter says.
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Burundi albino boy 'dismembered'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11614957
Albino people in a safe haven in Tanzania, 01/09 Albinos in Tanzania have become targets for body-snatchers seeking to sell them to witch doctors
The dismembered body of a young albino boy has been found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border, reports say.
The boy, aged nine, was taken from Makamba province in Burundi by a gang that crossed the border, the head of Burundi's albino association said.
Kassim Kazungu told AFP the remains had been recovered from the Malagarazi river and given a formal burial.
Albino body parts are prized in parts of Africa, with witch-doctors claiming they have special powers.
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* Living in fear: Tanzania's albinos
* Kenyan held in albino sale sting
Mr Kazungu told the AFP news agency that Tanzanian police had arrested five people, although there was no official confirmation from Tanzania.
In Tanzania, the body parts of people living with albinism are used by witch-doctors for potions which they tell clients will help make them rich or healthy.
Dozens of albinos have been killed, and the killings have spread to neighbouring Burundi.
In August a court in Tanzania sentenced a Kenyan accused of trying to sell an albino to 17 years in jail and a fine of more than $50,000 (£41,200).
Tanzanian authorities have promised to crack down on albino traffickers, and several people have been sentenced to death in connection with killings. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Man accused of wife's murder 'consulted witch doctor'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11628516
A man who drugged his children before killing his wife at their Southampton home had consulted a "witch doctor" in the months before, a court has heard.
George Kibuuka is accused of using a sledgehammer and knife to murder his wife Margaret in November 2009.
The jury heard he visited his home country of Uganda to discuss problems in his marriage with family and friends and was "not himself".
Mr Kibuuka, 48, denies murder and drugging three of his children.
He admits the killing but his defence is arguing diminished responsibility, saying he was suffering from an "abnormality of mind".
Sleeping tablets
His friend told Winchester Crown Court he was "surprised" to find out Mr Kibuuka had consulted a witch doctor and not a medic about his problems.
The trial earlier heard that Mr Kibuuka put sleeping tablets into the food and drink of the couple's children so they would not witness the attack.
In the early hours of the next day, on 8 November last year, he went to his wife's bedroom at their Shirley home with the sledgehammer.
After the killing he stabbed himself in the abdomen and took organophosphate pesticide, but was found by paramedics and survived.
Part-time carer Mrs Kibuuka, 40, had filed for divorce, claiming her husband had been violent towards her.
Mr Kibuuka did not accept the marriage was over and did not want to lose his considerable assets, the hearing was told.
The mother-of-four had complained to police about her husband's violence and emotional abuse in the weeks before her death, the court heard.
The trial continues. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | African children trafficked to UK for blood rituals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15280776
By Chris Rogers
BBC News, Kampala and London
Some 9,000 children have gone missing in Uganda over the past four years, according to a US report
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Over the last four years, at least 400 African children have been abducted and trafficked to the UK and rescued by the British authorities, according to figures obtained by the BBC. It is unclear how they are smuggled into the country but a sinister picture is emerging of why.
Whether it is through leaflets handed out in High Streets or small ads in local newspapers, witch-doctors and traditional African spiritual healers are becoming ever more prominent in Britain.
The work many of them do is harmless enough, but there is evidence that some are involved in the abuse of children who have been abducted from their families in Africa, and trafficked to the UK.
According to Christine Beddoe, director of the anti-trafficking charity Ecpat UK, a cultural belief in the power of human blood in so-called juju rituals is playing a part in the demand for African children.
"Our experience tells us that traffickers can be anybody. They can be people with power, people with money or people involved in witchcraft," she explains.
"Trafficking can involve witch-doctors and other types of professionals in the community who are using those practices."
Violent and degrading
Figures compiled by Ecpat, combined with those of the Metropolitan Police and Ceop, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, show that at least 400 African children have been abducted and trafficked to the UK and rescued by the British authorities.
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I would have no problem to get a child officially or there is a way of doing it secretly, abduct a child”
Yunus Kabul
Testimonies from many of these children have revealed that once they arrive in Britain, they are exposed to violent and degrading treatments, often involving the forced extraction of their blood to be used for clients demanding blood rituals.
Some of these victims agreed to share their experiences on the promise of anonymity because they still fear their abusers.
One boy explained how witch-doctors took his blood to be used in such rituals: "The traffickers or witch-doctors take your hair and cut your arms, legs, heads and genitals and collect the blood. They say if you speak out I can kill you."
Another victim feared for her life, saying the "witch-doctor told me that one day he would need my head.
Unaware he was being recorded, Mr Kabul described to the BBC's Chris Rogers how he got hold of children for his customers.
"Sometimes I would wake up and he would be standing over me with a knife, every night I was terrified that he would do it."
Meanwhile, a girl from Nigeria remains convinced the spell performed on her means she can never identify her traffickers, for fear her family will die.
"They told me I was evil and made bad things happen. I believed it and that this was my punishment and what my life would be."
Human blood ritual
Witch-doctors, or traditional spiritual healers as they prefer to be known, are becoming more prominent in Britain.
Many offer "life changing rituals", involving prayer and herbs. A price tag of £350 ($547) would not be uncommon.
But there are some who engage in more sinister practices.
Posing as a couple with financial problems, I visited 10 witch-doctors. All offered herbal potions to end our money worries, but two also made the offer of a ritual involving human blood.
The US says Uganda is one of the main source countries for children to be smuggled to the UK
Although, there is no evidence that they themselves were involved in the trafficking and abuse of children, it contributes to a disturbing picture of abduction and abuse.
According to a US State Department report, Uganda has become one of the main source countries for children to be bought and smuggled to Britain. Some 9,000 children have gone missing in the country over the past four years.
The ease with which a child could be procured was apparent when, posing as a British trafficker, I went looking for help in the cafes and bars in the underworld of the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
For $250 (£160) a reformed criminal introduced us to Yunus Kabul, who boasted he had been abducting children for witch-doctors in Africa and abroad, for years.
During our conversation he offered as many children as we required.
"I have enough, a hundred, no problem. I have so many communications. I have a network across whole of Uganda."
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Det Ch Supt Richard Martin
Metropolitan Police
Mr Kabul arranged a meeting at an isolated hotel. Unaware he was being recorded, he described how he got hold of children for his customers.
"It all depends how they want it done? I can take you to a family home, I would have no problem to get a child officially or there is a way of doing it secretly, abduct a child."
I asked Mr Kabul if the police would cause a problem.
"I have to find a house where we can take the supply, the children, in a remote area. So the police cannot find them," he explained.
Mr Kabul demanded a fee of £10,000 ($15,600) per child. I withdrew from the negotiations.
The head of Uganda's Anti-Human Sacrifice Police Task Force, Commissioner Bignoa Moses, admits there is a problem: "We cannot rule out that children end up abroad because as of now we don't have the capacity to monitor each individual and many simply disappear."
Back in the UK, despite the testimony of so many victims, the cultural belief in the power of juju is a huge challenge for the authorities.
One senior police detective says part of the problem is the silence that surrounds the matter.
"While juju is widely believed, it is rarely spoken about publicly. People think even talking about juju might lead to something bad happening to them," says Det Ch Supt Richard Martin, head of the Metropolitan Police's Human Exploitation and Organised Crime Command.
"This presents officers with enormous difficulties when it comes to investigating these crimes and bringing the perpetrators to justice."
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | South African arrested with 'nephew's genitals in his wallet'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/20251773
A man in South Africa has been arrested after he was found to be carrying genitals in his wallet - thought to be those of his missing nephew.
A police spokesperson told the BBC that after his arrest, the man took officers to a forest in Eastern Cape province where a mutilated body was found.
The teenager's head, arms and legs had been chopped off and were found not far from his torso, he said.
The 42 year old is expected to be charged with murder.
The man was questioned as he was suspected of involvement in the disappearance of his 18-year-old nephew, who had gone missing from the town of Ngcobo on Sunday.
Police spokesperson Mzukisi Fatyela said the genitals were found packed inside his wallet.
He said the motive for the killing and mutilation was not known but an investigation was under way.
When asked whether it could be linked to a "muti" killing, when witchdoctors use body parts in their potions, Mr Fatyela said: "We can't say that with certainty at the moment but the police are investigating all possibilities."
There have been widespread reports in South Africa of the illicit sale of human body parts for such purposes.
In East Africa, scores of people with albinism have been killed for their body parts in recent years.
The arrested man is expected to appear in court on Friday. |
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| Quote: | UN's Navi Pillay condemns Tanzania attacks on albinos
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21675536
Salum Khalfani Bar'wani became the first Tanzanian with albinism to be elected an MP in 2010
The UN human rights chief has condemned a recent spate of "horrific attacks" on people with albinism in Tanzania, including the murder of a young boy.
The government should act to stop the "vicious killings" and discrimination they faced, said Navi Pillay.
The mutilation and murder of people with albinism is often linked to witchcraft, the UN says.
Only five people have been convicted in Tanzania since 2000 for killing people with albinism, it adds.
Some 72 people have been killed in that time.
In 2009, President Jakaya Kiwete said the murders had brought shame to Tanzania and launched a national campaign to end the persecution of people with albinism.
'Arm hacked off'
In 2010, Salum Khalfani Bar'wani became the first person with albinism to be elected as an MP in Tanzania.
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Navi Pillay
UN human rights chief
In a statement, Ms Pillay said four attacks on Tanzanians with albinism had been documented in just 16 days between the end of January and mid-February. They included:
the murder of a seven-year-old boy, Lugolola Bunzari, on 31 January at Kanunge village in the Tabora region. His attackers slashed his forehead, right arm and left shoulder, and chopped off his left arm just above the elbow. The boy's grandfather, aged 95, was also killed in the attack as he tried to protect his grandson;
a seven-month-old baby, Makunga Baraka, narrowly escaped death on 5 February after armed men attacked his home in the Simiyu region. Villagers chased the attackers away and surrounded the house to protect him. The baby and his mother were taken to the police station the following morning and given temporary sanctuary;
a 39-year-old woman Maria Chambanenge was attacked on 11 February by five armed men, allegedly including her husband, in Mkowe village in the Rukwa region. They hacked off her left arm while she was sleeping with two of her four children. The five suspects were subsequently arrested and the victim's arm recovered - their trial is reportedly under way
a 10-year-old boy, Mwigulu Matonange, was attacked on his way home from school and his left arm chopped off above the elbow by two unidentified men in Msia village in Rukwa. Three men have been arrested in connection with the attack.
"These crimes are abhorrent. People with albinism have the right to start living, like anyone else, without fear of being killed or dismembered," Ms Pillay said.
Tanzania's authorities needed to step up efforts to bring the attackers to justice, she added.
Public awareness campaigns should also be launched to end the stigma associated with albinism, Ms Pillay said.
"I am deeply alarmed by the general discrimination and social exclusion many people with albinism suffer, as a result of their skin colour, not just in Tanzania but in other countries as well," she said.
Some witchdoctors say that magic charms are more powerful if they contain body parts from people with albinism - this has led to a lucrative criminal trade in these body parts. |
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