Kenyan Witchhunt Leaves 11 Burned To Death

A Mob In Western Kenya Hunted Down 8 Women, 3 Men Accused of Witchcraft

(AP)  Officials in Kenya say a mob has killed 11 people accused of being witches and wizards, in some cases slitting their throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies.

A local official says up to 300 young men moved from house to house, using a list of suspected witches and wizards and the kind of spells they were believed to have cast on the community. One local official says the victims are being accused of "making the bright children in the community dumb."

A police spokesman says eight women and three men — most over the age of 70 — were hunted down and killed. Another officer says the mob set 36 homes on fire and threw the victims' bodies back inside.

Deputy police spokesman Charles Owino says the mob hunted down the eight women and three men in two villages in the western Kenya district of Kisii Central. Owino says most of the victims were between 70 and 90 years old.

Senior administrator Njoroge Ndirangu says the mob used a list Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to hunt down people they said were suspected witches and wizards.

"These people identified who is to be killed by accusing their victims of bewitching their sons and daughters," says Ndirangu. Ndirangu is the commissioner in charge of Kisii Central district.

[keithle1]

Find me a black American who wants to move to an African country to live.

[keithle1]

How would you be able to tell the difference from the way it is now?

[jboxton]

We should just drop a few bombs on that backwards dark ages country.

[milesbrown49]

trishab4: Sounds like you got the dumb gene!!! We know that if children are exposed to lead their cognitive development is affected. There are other drugs, minerals and ores that do the same. Some people are evil and will expose a child to these things because they are jealouse or vengeful. Thats why we call them witches!! Kind of like the Colonist to the Africans!!!

[trishab4]

CBS: One local official says the victims are being accused of "making the bright children in the community dumb."

-Did those idiot parents check for any new TV set they purchased recently! THAT may be a serious cause of their children''s dumbness, aside from their own idiocy genetics transmitted to their offspring! lol!

[jhance11]

I''ve always found the term activist Judge to be interesting. I''m pretty sure "libh8er" if truly put to the test couldn''t explain what he thinks an activist judge is. Oh I know the standard Repuplican line is(tired diatrib and all) But as this years election is about to show people are seeing through that kind of BS. I often finsd people want to add those labels on people who dare to diasgree with them.
Getting back to the religous air of this story. Should we go back to Salam witchhunts done with the approval of the Prodistant church, How about the Crusades, the Catholic Pope at that time( the first one) Declared all who joined the army to rid the holy land of usurpers earned A one way ticket to Heaven(most would need that as many never returned) or should we discuss the inquisition, responsilble for 250,000 lives (mostly women) Lost. Look guys I''m A believer in the Devine. However, to say anyone here knows what that may be without any real evidence at all is well, naive at best dangerous at worst. It''s about power and control with people in the background pulling the strings. To the buyer beware as they say.

[avigil2]

For God''s sakes! Can World News be any more depressing?

[idowhatiwant]

holy rollers. what wrong with you people.

the article was about kenyans killing witches and wizards. how did this turn out to be a religous debate.

oh hail rainbow bright.

[libh8er]

But then, Atheists have yet to burn a witch, or kill in the name of God..
Posted by Nancy_Naive at 07:50 PM : May 21, 2008

No, they just use activest judges and the courts to undermine the very judaeo/christian foundations this country was built upon. So, in a way, yes you do.

[milesbrown49]

As strange as this may sound, evilness is real. We may identify witches and warlocks as we see them on TV, but the truth is they do not possess "magical" powers just medicinal knowledge that can be dangerous if practiced incorrectly. There is also pycological knowledge that is just as dangers, like demonizing someone you don''t like and causing them pain and discomfort from the community. It is not magical witches that they are talking about!!!

[erasmus81]

"Hey, when did I grow a tail?" Posted by rushlimpdrug at 10:22 PM : May 21, 2008

I don''t know, but I think it has been there for awhile.

[rushlimpdrug]

This explains the shortage of witches.

Remember folks when witches are outlaws only
outlaws will be . . .

Hey, when did I grow a tail?

[erasmus81]

"I wonder if I could get them to go after my ex-mother-in-law? She sure qualifies!" Posted by SgtRDS-E4 at 10:01 PM : May 21, 2008

Now that wasn''t nice. Now if she was a real witch, you would be toast.:)

"Officials in Kenya say a mob has killed 11 people accused of being witches and wizards, in some cases slitting their throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies."

I think they killed the wrong people. REAL witches would not allowed this to happen.:)

[sgtrds-e4]

I wonder if I could get them to go after my ex-mother-in-law? She sure qualifies!

[nothappyatall]

I might add there are LOTS of christian CHURCHES in South Africa and the like, Africa is NOT some Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom documentary any more with Marlin Perkins riding shotgun on a land rover for days in the wilderness without seeing a town or people.

Go do some research on MODERN Africa, I hear they have TV, internet, computers, even CARS now!!
They were corrupted by the church of england and the like.

Official site of the Church of England in South Africa including its beliefs, vision, ministers, churches, college, news and contact details.
cesa.org.za/

Religion, church, churches, mosques, cathedrals, worship, South Africa
Flowers & Gifts delivered throughout South Africa, National, South African Council of Churches. Anglican. International, Archbishop of Canterbury ...
www.saeverything.co.za/religion.htm

Lutheran Churches in Southern Africa
There are a number of Lutheran Churches and Co-operative Ventures in South and Southern Africa:. Lutheran Churches associated with the Lutheran World ...
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7589/luther_en.html

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa operates in six countries of the sub-continent - Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. ...
www.methodist.org.za/

[nothappyatall]

You spoke too soon - their own misguided superstitions led them to this, NOT evangelical missionaries. You atheists just can''''t take the time to do three minutes of research before you fire your guns, can you?

Posted by MityWhity
"

OH?
Maybe you totally missed the bloody Christian crusades, reformation, Salem witch trials, inquisition and more which slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, Add in the blasphemy and heresy trials.

"Witches" are a catholic/christian fear for the most part, backed up too by the part of the holy buybull that says "suffer not a witch to live"- used by devoute CHRISTIANS and their ilk to arrest, try and kill people suspected as "witches".

[nothappyatall]

Well MIKE, what you fail to realize is torture is proven DOES NOT WORK, because under torture the person will admit or say ANYTHING to make it stop, it''s beena proven fact, so under bush''s regime TORTURE any information obtained is to be immediately considered dubious, bogus and suspect as FALSE.
Maybe YOU are comfortable with ''inteligence'' obtained that way that is certainly going to be BOGUS, WRONG etc, but I''m not.
The bush regime can CLAIM anything they like about info allegedly valid obtained by torture, the facts remain torture is not a valid way to get real information.

[keithle1]

American Blacks need to stop calling themselves AFRICAN-Americans. What have you got in common with them besides the obvious? Zippo.

[sgtrds-e4]

But then, Atheists have yet to burn a witch, or kill in the name of God..

Regards,

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 07:50 PM : May 21, 2008

RAmen.

[mitywhity]

You spoke too soon - their own misguided superstitions led them to this, NOT evangelical missionaries. You atheists just can''t take the time to do three minutes of research before you fire your guns, can you?