Tanzania witchdoctors flout ban. From the BBC.
Original article here. Thanks again to Jason McKay for the heads up in the world of SORCERORS!
Tanzania's only albino MP has been trying to fight prejudice. Witchdoctors in Tanzania are defying a government ban announced on Friday, intended to stop the killings of people with albinism for ritual medicine. A BBC correspondent has seen at least 10 witchdoctors are working openly. It comes days after the latest murder of an albino man in Tanzania brought the national death toll to at least 40 since mid-2007. The killers reportedly sell albino body parts - including limbs, hair, skin and genitals - to witchdoctors. Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said on Friday the government was revoking the licences of all traditional healers with immediate effect. "These witchdoctors are big liars," he said at a rally in the northern Shinyanga region. But the BBC's Vicky Ntetema said it was business as usual for the traditional healers she visited on Monday just outside the biggest city Dar es Salaam.
A spokesman for a traditional healers' association has criticised the ban. Arusha-based herbalist Haruna Kifimbo told the Citizen newspaper: "We are legally registered, they should be dealing with some state organs who have not done much to stop the wave of albino killings." He claimed members of his association were offering services to more than 30% of the country's population. "We have so many patients and clients who depend on us," he told the Citizen. "I believe it would have been better if the PM had consulted us before announcing the ban." In the most recent case last Wednesday an albino man - named as Jonas Maduka - was killed in Sogoso village in the north-western Mwanza region. He was reportedly eating dinner at home when some people called and asked for his help. When he went outside he was strangled, before his assailants chopped off his leg and made away with the limb.
The Tanzanian authorities have arrested more than 90 people in recent months - including four police officers - on suspicion of killing albinos or of trading in their body parts. There are thought to be more than 200,000 albinos in the country, which has a total population of 40 million. The killings have spread to neighbouring states, with at least one albino murder each in Burundi and Kenya last year.
Fiji freemasons held for sorcery, from the BBC, your source for fast breaking Sorceror News.
Fijian villagers are not the first to puzzle over Freemasonry's rituals A group of freemasons have had to spend a night in jail in Fiji, after local villagers complained they were practising witchcraft. The 14 men, including eight Australians and a New Zealander, had been holding a night-time meeting on Denerau island. The New Zealand man told reporters he had spent a "wretched" time in jail, and blamed the mix-up on the actions of "dopey village people". Police also seized wands, compasses and a skull from the freemasons' lodge. Freemasonry is a centuries-old club that practises secret rituals and has more than five million members worldwide. 'Nothing sinister' The New Zealander, who did not want to give his name, told the New Zealand Herald that Tuesday night's meeting was "interrupted by a banging on the door, and there were these village people and the police demanding to be let in". Nothing sinister was going on, he claimed, but "such is the nature of life in Fiji" they were taken to a nearby police station. The freemasons insist they had a permit for the meeting and were released after spending an uncomfortable night there. Police director of operations Waisea Tabakau told Legend FM News in Fiji that the group was being investigated for "allegedly practising sorcery", the Fiji Village website reported. The New Zealand man said that when they were freed the following morning, they were told their release was on the orders of the prime minister's office. Emergency regulations imposed by Fiji's military regime allow police to detain people for up to 48 hours without charge.
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