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Liberian leader abhors ritual killing
Afrol News, May 3, 2007
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf could not hide her disgust
against the alleged ritual killing of a five year-old boy,
Moses Binda, by two Liberian women. The incident took place
in Bong Mines, 70 km north of the capital Monrovia.
Monrovia police on Tuesday said they arrested the two women
suspects after they were accusing of killing Moses Binda for
ritual purposes. They allegedly extracted some parts of his
body and disappeared with them.
The boy’s decomposed body was later found in a pit latrine.
His killers tied his hands and dumped his incomplete remains.
Moses Binda was said to have been kidnapped on his way from
school last Friday.
The commander of Bong Mines Police Station, who is known
only as Children Father, was accused of conniving with the
women to kill the young boy.
Ritual Killers in Maryland
defy President Sirleaf
Analyst March 10, 2006
The Iron Lady
clamped down on the ritualistic killers to stop because she
said God himself said in the Bible that “Thou shall not kill.”
“Don’t try me; don't try my government because you think
that I am a woman.” Three hours after the President
departed from Harper, Madam Comfort Annan was out searching
for her 3-year-old grandson. The dead body of the little boy
was found with parts missing.
Woman Detained for Ritual Killing
Liberian Observer October 04, 2006
The Magisterial Court in Buchanan has charged and detained a
woman identified as Ruth Redd with the crime of “negligence
homicide” in connection with the mysterious death of a
two-year old Victoria Wee in Gbegbah Town, in Harlandsville
Township, Grand Bassa County.
Ritual killings increasing
in Nimba County
Analyst March 9, 2006
According to a
spokesman children are disappearing on a daily basis with
their bodies mostly discovered in the bushes along highways
and bearing marks of certain body parts removed.
Bryant warns presidential candidates
against ritual killings
IRIN June 29, 2005
Liberia's interim leader Gyude Bryant has warned any
aspiring presidential candidates tempted to boost their
chances by carrying out human sacrifices that they will be
executed if caught.
Religious Freedom Report 1999
Ritual
killings, in which body parts used in traditional indigenous
rituals are removed from the victim, continued to occur. The
number of such killings is difficult to ascertain, since
police often describe deaths as accidents even when body
parts have been removed.
History of ritual killings in Liberia:
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