Oliver Williams
Takimag
December 21, 2013
Since 2007, 45 albinos have been killed in Tanzania. Their limbs, hair, skin, and genitals were used to make potions. Their graves have to be fortified with metal bars and cement to stop the further harvesting of their organs.
From the vantage point of the West, this subject could be viewed with nothing more than morbid anthropological curiosity. Yet thanks to immigration these practices are now appearing in Western countries. Two charities, the NSPCC and World Vision, released a joint statement about the problem. “Across Sub-Saharan Africa, World Vision encounters these cases all too frequently.…And these views can come over to the UK.” The BBC reports that “Hundreds of central African children living in the UK may have suffered abuse or even been killed after being accused of witchcraft, charities say.”
In 2002 the mutilated torso of a boy was found in the River Thames—a human sacrifice by a Nigerian tribe. The police uncovered a trafficking ring that smuggled African children to Britain for occult purposes.
British citizens have been taken to the Congo on “holiday” by their parents to undergo “deliverance ceremonies,” i.e., exorcism. These involve being “cut with razors, stamped on, beaten, shouted at and forced to drink pigeons’ blood.”
At a flat in east London a Congolese couple starved a 15-year-old boy whom they accused of being a sorcerer. According to the Guardian, “floor tiles were smashed over his head, his teeth were hit out with a hammer.” The child was drowned in a bath on Christmas Day in 2010. Thomas Bikebi, director of the Congolese Family Centre, said, “There are people within the community who will say that this pair did the right thing, they killed a witch.”