Niger Delta Children being denounced and punished as witches. ABC Australia's 4 Corners report:
This is just sickening. Frightened children are accused of witchcraft because of some misfortune encountered by their family or village. The solution is to kill or maim them. Travelling religious... people offer to tourture the children for a substantial cost equivalent to a month's pay. All of this is based on folk lore of witches combined with evangelical christianity's paranoia about evil being all around them.
This is a video which promotes this nonsense:
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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