Ugandan child sacrifice market booming in absence of police action

via bbc.co.uk

Note: I may get a little preachy here, but this stuff makes me angry.


That little boy's shirt says "Pray to End Child Sacrifice." Prayer seems as likely to stop the horrible crimes as Ugandan police do, which is to say, not very likely at all. This BBC report is heartbreaking.

Children are bled, maimed, castrated, beheaded, and/or buried alive to bring those who paid for the crimes luck and wealth. Despite evidence enough to make an arrest and make some of these "witch doctors" nervous, police do nothing.

I won't rehash the powerful reporting by BBC News' Chris Rogers, just go read that article. The report mentioned in the article is embedded below. Case studies start on page five and they continue in various amounts of detail for fifteen pages. The report, almost 100 pages of distrubing information, documents a clear epidemic of mutilation and homicide.

Even survivors are unsuprisingly scarred, mentally and physically, by their ordeals. I don't pretend to know life in Uganda, but if the BBC story and the report below are any indication, cultural reluctance, bribery, or both are stifling the swift response this situation calls for.

Below: "Child Sacrifice in Uganda," a report compiled by Jubilee Campaign and Kyampisi Childcare Ministries.

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This was originally posted to joeross.posterous.com.