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The Witch Killers

THese Islamic witch hunters haven't started killing "witches" yet but it probably won't be long before they do so.

Three elderly people have been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of "practising sorcery", prompting concern among civil-rights defenders.

The three - two women and a man - were detained in Urus-Martan in the autonomous republic of southern Russia's Caucasus Mountains, and paraded on the local state-run Grozny TV channel.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian president of Chechnya, has used his own interpretation of Islamic law to bolster his eight-year rule in the overwhelmingly Muslim republic, and accordingly set up the Islamic Medical Institute in 2013 in association with the local clerical leadership to counter "sorcerers and witches".

In July, he expressed dissatisfaction with progress, and the Institute's black-clad religious police duly reported this month that they had detained a number of suspects.

The latest suspects appear to be practitioners of nothing worse than folk medicine and fortune-telling, the Kavkazsky-Uzel Caucasus news site reports.

The man and one of the women confess on air to "consorting with djins" - evil spirits - and the other woman says she advised a client to bathe in chicken broth to evade the "evil eye".

All the time, Grozny TV cuts back to the imposing figure of the head of the Islamic Institute of Medicine, Adam Elzhurkayev, who points to alleged evidence of witchcraft, ranging from bottles and chicken bones to dolls and inscriptions, all laid out on a table.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news...lEVqjl44j1DK7VBwpqHpA37B4Rh-FxQkxntUGDj6MhYM#

He brandishes a long stick and accuses the trio of "selling their souls to the Devil", while the TV presenter dutifully points out that the practice of magic is "confirmed to by harmful by Islamic law".
 
THese Islamic witch hunters haven't started killing "witches" yet but it probably won't be long before they do so. Three elderly people have been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of "practising sorcery", prompting concern among civil-rights defenders.
How enlightened. How civilized. What a yardstick of modern values.
 
a) Import huge numbers of people from countries where black magic, witchcraft and FGM are rife.

b) Profess astonishment when reported cases increase in number.

*sigh*

maximus otter
 
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We have 'been here' before.

And it wasn't true then, but some people made careers off the claim.

There is some past evidence on other Threads:

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-witch-killers.14434/page-3#post-1539269

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-witch-killers.14434/page-3#post-1613957

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/muti-murder.2064/

There are also numerous reports of such activities taking place in Africa on
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-witch-killers.14434/

Seeing as I have your attention and to save the energy involved in another post perhaps this Thread could be merged with:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-witch-killers.14434/
 

Will merge it in there when it is moved from Fortean News.

(Merge since completed)
 
Well, it's more likely to come from a twisted fundamentalist Christian belief in black magic than someone practicing tribal rites in grass skirt and witch doctor mask.
 
Children targeted again.

Two young girls accused of witchcraft have been set ablaze in Waduruk community, Shen village, Jos South local government area of Plateau State.‌

The victims, said to be aged 11 and 5 years respectively, are reportedly battling for their lives at the Plateau State Specialists Hospital, Jos.
The State Chairperson of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Mrs. Jennifer Yarima described the act as a gross violation of the human rights of the victims and called for concerted efforts from law enforcement agencies to ensure the perpetrators are arrested and prosecuted.

In a statement she signed and issued in Jos, the NAWOJ Chairperson noted,

“We condemn in strong terms the unspeakable human rights violation meted on two minors, 11 years old Godgift Nyam and five years old Mary Gyang who sustained unimaginable degree of injuries after they were burnt. The menace of jungle justice has no place in our contemporary society; it is a disheartening situation that minors will be subjected to such a traumatizing agony without any substantial evidence to prove their claims. The members of the community have continued to shield the perpetrators of this dastardly act and chased security agents when they went to arrest suspects. Since nobody is above the law, concerted efforts should be made to arrest and prosecute all those involved in this act of inhumanity to serve as a deterrent to others.”

https://www.informationng.com/2019/12/young-girls-accused-of-witchcraft-set-ablaze-in-plateau.html
 
Some really appalling stuff here, "witch" sanctioned by a country's president. killing

For 22 years Gambians lived under the grip of former president, Yahya Jammeh, whose rule was marked by allegations of human rights abuses including killings, witch hunts and forced labour - although Mr Jammeh has previously denied wrongdoing. Since his shock election defeat more than five years ago, the country has been coming to terms with its painful history, including through the medium of art.
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Fatou Terema Jeng was overcome with emotion when she first saw her photographs in the grounds of a museum called The Memory House. But it was not the usual despair and sadness she feels when she thinks about what she said was done to her family by the Yahya Jammeh regime in The Gambia.

Instead of tears, there were smiles.

"I was so happy when I saw my portraits. They looked so beautiful. I couldn't stop smiling that day."

Her radio technician husband, Sankung Balajo, died because of witch hunts allegedly meted out on the orders of Mr Jammeh. They apparently started in 2009 after he blamed an aunt's death on witchcraft and are thought to have occurred sporadically over seven years. They struck deep terror and divisions in communities in Gambia.

Ms Jeng's images are part of a powerful series of portraits of 11 people who are sharing their stories of the horrific abuses they say they and their families suffered under Mr Jammeh, who was in power between 1994 and 2016. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61650362
 

Jihadists slaughter at least 26 women after Boko Haram commander accused them of being witches


Boko Haram jihadists slaughtered at least 26 women by slitting their throats after their commander accused them of being witches who caused the sudden death of his children in Nigeria.

Around 40 women were held in a village near Gwoza town in Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria, on the orders of jihadist commander Ali Guyile after his children suddenly died overnight, according to relatives and a woman who escaped.

They said the commander had accused the women of causing the children's deaths through witchcraft.

On Thursday last week, 14 women were slaughtered in Gwoza town and a few days later, another 12 were killed by the Boko Haram jihadists.

Accusations of witchcraft are not uncommon in Nigeria, a religious conservative country almost equally divided between the mostly Muslim north and Christian south.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...men-Boko-Haram-commander-accused-WITCHES.html

maximus otter
 
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