'Witches' attacked in India Monday, December 22, 2008 Indian police began a probe on Monday into reports that villagers in a tribal area of central India beat 50 women with sticks after accusing them of witchcraft, and cut off their hair. The villagers acted on the advice of a local spiritual man who said the assault would protect them from evil spirits, in a forest in a poor district of Chhattisgarh state, 400km (250 miles) from the capital Raipur, police said. Dozens of women are killed every year on suspicion of being witches or witch doctors in India, where superstition is widespread, especially in rural areas that lack an effective schooling system. While there are few killings in Chhattisgarh, more than 100 women are tortured, paraded naked or harassed in the state every year, officials say. "Police have begun a probe and interrogated dozens of villagers who hosted a nine-day purification ceremony where they forcibly cut the hair of about 50 women branding them witches and also beat them up publicly," Radheshyam Nayak, a senior state police officer, said. The state passed a Witchcraft (Prevention) Act in 2005 to counter a rise in witchhunts, handing out jail terms of up to five years for offenders, though many cases are still reported. Chhattisgarh's Chief Minister Raman Singh called the latest assault "inhuman, unfortunate and shameful" and asked the state's police chief to investigate the case, a statement said.
^that chick looks very plastic... you get worse stuff in parts of africa where children are accused of being witches and basically tortured and killed.
She is not plastic, she is my new apprentice -bigsmile Yep, some countries are like Europe in the Middle Ages or worse
yep, exactly what i was thinking... like middle-ages.... unfortunately still so ignorant... i dont wanna rip on other ppl's culture n beliefs as long as they dont harm ppl... but yeah, this is just pure ignorance
Additionally, children or adults that are albino are hunted by others who then sell their body parts to shamans for use in traditional magic rituals. Two young (five or six year old) children recently disappeared despite their parents best efforts to protect them. They are feared to have been already murdered, dismembered, and sold for high prices to witch doctors.
^i read about that... thats scaryyy.... those albinos get special security from government... poor albinosss!!!
