Go Back   Horror.com Forums - Talk about horror. > Horror, But Not Movies > True Crime
Register FAQ Community Calendar

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 08-05-2004, 09:32 AM
bloodrayne's Avatar
bloodrayne bloodrayne is offline
Umbra Asylum

 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: I'm like smoke...I get in
Posts: 18,931
Send a message via Yahoo to bloodrayne
Witches Slaughtered By Vigilante Mob

Tanzanian 'Witch Killers' Charged

Some 20 people in Tanzania have been charged with murdering seven men they suspected of practising witchcraft.
Among the accused are village leaders and other local officials, who ordered the killings, according to the police.

They had organised a secret ballot where residents named the alleged witches and wizards, who were then attacked with machetes and spears.

Seven others were injured in the attacks police describe as the most atrocious ever seen in the area.

Killing Squad

Those on the hit list, drafted by village leaders near Makete in Iringa region, were advised to leave their homes immediately or face the consequences.

Regional Police Commander Omar Mganga told the BBC that those who defied the local authorities' orders were then attacked by a killing squad of young men using clubs, machetes and spears.

Last year, the authorities displayed this human skin to discourage 'ritual skinning'
"Our investigations showed that the victims were under the suspicion of fellow villagers' murders, after relatives noticed that certain organs were removed from the bodies of their loved ones," Police Commander Omar Mganga said.

During several raids, the police found the names of the murdered and injured victims in the minutes of one of the village meetings.

Some of the suspects, who appeared in Njombe magistrates court on Wednesday, include a councillor, a village chairperson and executive officers, a businessmen and farmers.

Their alleged involvement has shocked residents and police in the district.

'Police, Judge, Jury and Executioner'

What is more worrying to many is the method of nominating people who are suspected of being involved in witchcraft.

Two months ago, villagers in a neighbouring district used a secret ballot to make a list of people who they claimed were responsible for killing old women and removing their internal organs for witchcraft purposes.

But they passed their list of suspects to the police, unfortunately, Police Commander Omar Mganga said, leaders of the three villages near Makete decided to be the police, judge, jury and executioner in these chilling and cruel murders.

Witchcraft-related murders seem to occur in this region during the harvest season, when some people believe that if fresh human blood or dried and powdered internal human organs are sprinkled over land and buildings then business will be successful.

In recent years, the trade in human organs has been on the increase in this southern part of Tanzania.

Human skinning, which hit the headlines two years ago, still haunts neighbouring Mbeya region where six young people were thought to have been killed and skinned.

The case will continue in two weeks.
__________________
...
If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance...Baffle 'em with bullshit

My Karma ran over my Dogma

God WAS my co-pilot...But, we crashed in the mountains and...I had to eat him

I'm suffocating in what's become of me...
The rancid remains of what I used to be
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 08-05-2004, 10:47 AM
meetthecreeper's Avatar
meetthecreeper meetthecreeper is offline
Saint of Killers
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Cheap motel on the edge of route 66
Posts: 1,704
Not surprising, although I dont ever recall using powdered human organs for anything much less for a plentiful harvest. This kind of thing brings back memories of the past.
__________________
I was not born to live a mans life, but to be the stuff of future memory.

3 can keep a secret if 2 are dead.

I've never been nice my whole life....but, I'll do my best to be sweet.

I keep my standards low, so I'm never disappointed.

The next words out of your mouth better be some Mark Twain shit, cos' I am going to be chiseling it on your tombstone.

Trample the weak, Hurdle the dead.

Forgive your enemies......after they are slain.

The God I believe in aint short of cash mister.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 11:12 PM.