A 67 year old confused woman, accused of being a with, has been clubbed to death. A baby corpse is found in a dumpster, with holes in its little hand palms. An alleged child molester is being set on fire...
Open any newspaper any day and you will read some horrid story of a poor soul being lynched by the crowd. The cases are hardly investigated by the police and will never reach the court room. Superstition and unfounded rumors are often the base. I think that everyone in Madagascar, educated or not, believes in witches, ghosts and gris-gris.The poor lady, mostly likely a psychiatric patient, had been tied to a pole and was beaten to death by a gang of angry youngsters in broad daylight. The crowd just stood around and watched.
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| Grieving daughter by her mother's body, accused of being a witch |
Believing in angels does not offer hope. Believing in Jesus does.
ReplyDeleteA Malagasy Reader!
I am sad to read that witch hunting practises also exist in Madagascar. I thought it was merely a West African phenomena. Do you know that Ghana has 6 witch camps in which about 1000 women and their children find refugee? For a number of years Ghanaian government tries to close the camps as a measure to eridicate witch craft .Families and humanist are against the closure. You can guess why: without these camps, most victims of witch craft would have been lynched or murdered by their accusers; most of the people in these camps would be dead by now. If the Ghanaian governments would abandon the witchcraft mentality, the witch camps will simply fade away. I fear that witch hunting is not high on the agenda of the Malagasy government. Terribly sad..
ReplyDeleteThey (Malagasy government officials) are busy with witch hunting their political opponents and dissents.
DeleteThis horrible story highlights the lack of individual rights in Madagascar.
A Malagasy Reader!
great wonderful post
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