Bureau Recommends: Uganda – Witch doctors kill children for profit
source: http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/10/12/bureau-recommends-uganda-witch-doctors-kill-...
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The Bureau recommends a BBC investigation exposing how child sacrifice has become a business in Uganda, aired last night.
‘They call him the miracle child,’ reporter Chris Rogers begins. ‘A machete was sliced through Allan’s head and neck in an attempt to behead him. He was also castrated – the work of witch doctors, attempting child sacrifice.’
Allan is nine, and a rare survivor of the Juju, or ‘witchcraft’ ritual that has re-emerged in Uganda over the past three years, coinciding with a boom in Uganda’s economy.
Many believe that members of the country’s new elite are paying vast sums of money for the sacrifices, claimed by Juju witch doctors to bring wealth, good health and fortune.
Posing as a businessman wanting luck and success for a construction project, BBC reporter Rogers visited a witch doctor in a the village surrounding Uganda’s capital, Kampala, where child abductions have taken place.
He was told that slaughtering a child is ‘the most powerful spell’. Emotionless, the witch doctor explained: ‘We can bury the child alive on your construction site, or we cut the child and put their blood in a bottle of spiritual medicine. If it’s a male, the whole head is cut off, and his genitals.’
The doctor demanded a fee of $390 (£250) for the ritual.
According to official police figures in Uganda, there have been 38 cases of child sacrifice since 2006. However, UK-based charity, Jubilee Campaign says in a report that the true number of cases is in the hundreds, and claims more than 900 cases have yet to be investigated by the police because of corruption and a lack of resources.
The Campaign are lobbying the Ugandan government to introduce new legislation on child sacrifice, and to better equip the police, who have been accused of inaction and of attempting to bribe victims’ families rather than pursue offenders.
Watch the full investigation @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15267792
‘They call him the miracle child,’ reporter Chris Rogers begins. ‘A machete was sliced through Allan’s head and neck in an attempt to behead him. He was also castrated – the work of witch doctors, attempting child sacrifice.’
Allan is nine, and a rare survivor of the Juju, or ‘witchcraft’ ritual that has re-emerged in Uganda over the past three years, coinciding with a boom in Uganda’s economy.
Many believe that members of the country’s new elite are paying vast sums of money for the sacrifices, claimed by Juju witch doctors to bring wealth, good health and fortune.
Posing as a businessman wanting luck and success for a construction project, BBC reporter Rogers visited a witch doctor in a the village surrounding Uganda’s capital, Kampala, where child abductions have taken place.
He was told that slaughtering a child is ‘the most powerful spell’. Emotionless, the witch doctor explained: ‘We can bury the child alive on your construction site, or we cut the child and put their blood in a bottle of spiritual medicine. If it’s a male, the whole head is cut off, and his genitals.’
The doctor demanded a fee of $390 (£250) for the ritual.
According to official police figures in Uganda, there have been 38 cases of child sacrifice since 2006. However, UK-based charity, Jubilee Campaign says in a report that the true number of cases is in the hundreds, and claims more than 900 cases have yet to be investigated by the police because of corruption and a lack of resources.
The Campaign are lobbying the Ugandan government to introduce new legislation on child sacrifice, and to better equip the police, who have been accused of inaction and of attempting to bribe victims’ families rather than pursue offenders.
Watch the full investigation @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15267792
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