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Thread ID: 7954 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-07-07
2003-07-07 17:01 | User Profile
"Pssst - Wanna buy a lampshade?"
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3045738.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3045738.stm[/url]
Tanzania fights human skinning
Human skin is used for witchcraft at a price of up to $9,600 Exhibits of skin are part of Tanzania's campaign to discourage the trade in human skin at an international business fair in the capital. Vistors to the the week-long fair in Dar es Salaam will see a rather gruesome exhibit of human body parts in an effort to raise awareness about the underground trade in human skin which has hit southern Tanzania over the past two years.
The head of the forensic science division in the chief chemist's office, which is exhibiting the parts, Gloria Machube, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that the human skin is used in witchcraft.
According to police the skins are in huge demand outside Tanzania.
People are skinned and the skin is used for their rituals
Gloria Machube Head of forensic science
They are transported to Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo before reaching their final destination in West Africa.
"People are skinned and the skin is used for their rituals. But fortunately they are caught by the police," Ms Machube said.
Murder charges
In 2001 police .................
2003-07-07 17:24 | User Profile
I think some combination of laughing and puking is in order. If, at the time of decolonization, you'd predicted that the natives would be doing this kind of thing before too long, you'd be screamed at for being a "racist."