Not only in Liberia
Ritual Killings in other countries
South Africa (7 case registered here)
 


 
  1. A 42-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing a woman and removing parts of her body in Thohoyandou, Limpopo police said today. The man's arrest follows the murder last year of a 35-year-old woman, said Ailwei Mushavhanamadi, a police spokesperson.
    March 31, 2007, 13:30
     
  2. The murder apparently happened on December 9 2006, a day after the year-end party at Tsitsikamma diamond mine near Plooysburg.
    Modise said preliminary investigations were conducted, and police suspected that Sedumoeng was the victim of a ritual murder.
    March 19, 2007
     
  3. Muti hijack foiled:
    The continuous spate of ritual murders in Vhembe is a fact. This follows after Mashudu Munzhelele (35) of Tshifudi, Munangwa village, unexpectedly overpowered suspected ritual killers who wanted to murder him for muti purposes at the Mutshundudzi River on Monday.
    August 11, 2006
     
  4. The latest victim of ritual murder:
    Ms Thinandavha was buried at her home village of Mulodi during the weekend. Her mutilated body was discovered at Mulodi Mountain last Sunday. Her upper lip, right handpalm, left ear and the front part of her breasts were sliced off. She was naked from the waist down and a rope was tied around her neck.
    August 2006
     
  5. Another case of ritual killing:
    Pretoria police are offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers of four-year-old Connie Ncube.
    In what appeared to be a muti killing, her mutilated body was found in a river in Nellmapius, east of Pretoria, in February.
    March 28, 2006
     
  6. South African police accused of ignoring ritual murders:
    Even in a country grown accustomed to horrific acts of violence, it is a crime that still shocks. ''Muti murder'', in which human body parts are removed to be used in traditional "medicine", is increasing in South Africa - but victims' families complain that the police too often ignore it.
    March 26, 2006
     
  7. In South Africa, where the government set up a Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft Violence and Ritual Murders after a spate of killings of boys aged between one and six in Soweto, it is estimated that at least 300 people have been murdered for their body parts in the past decade. The figure could be as high as 500 a year.
    April 8, 2003
     
Putting the spotlight on muti murders
Since the gruesome discovery of a young African boy’s torso in the Thames River in September 2001 in London, Oliver G. Becker embarked on an intensive study of the subject of muti murders. The young boy, known to Scotland Yard only as Adam, was brutally killed and slaughtered for muti purposes (...)
Becker has produced several documentaries and a scientific paper on the matter.
August 11, 2006
 
 
 

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