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Blood sacrifice
Posted to: <Ned> Front Porch by Ben Parkinson (61), Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:21:10 PDT
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I'm sorry to post something horrific on this forum. I am just incredibly shocked by it and I feel that not enough people know about what is happening.
From two separate sources in Kampala and Kireka, I am told that child sacrifice is rife. Parents are worried to send their children to activities, because of the fear that they may be taken. I am aware of children are having nightmares about it happening to them and the reason is that they know many children who have died and think they might be next.
Witch doctors are supplying potent drugs to people and paying them sums of money to supply children for their vile purposes. The drugs are used to knock out small households during the night - small slum dwellings can easily be affected - and then the children or a child taken.
One boy said his uncle had been drugged, but fortunately nearby households had observed what was going on and had called the Police, who I understand have a shoot to kill policy for this offence.
Many people in Uganda are devising strategies to combat this, but, the question is - what can be done?
By Christina Jordan (254), Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:22:54 PDT
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As I understand it, this has something to do with the construction of new buildings. There is a belief (certainly not held by all Ugandans) that a new building must be blessed with human blood - not only children but also adults are often abducted and later found to have been sacrificed.
Interestingly, during my last 2 years in Uganda there was another (unrelated on the surface) problem of buildings collapsing. Just before I left, 2 large buildings collapsed in one week, and they were just 2 more in a long string of collapses. In a TV report I saw, it was stated that the President had received a report 1-2 years ago from the Ugandan National Association of Engineers which estimated that 80% of all new buildings under construction in Kampala were architecturally unsound.
At the same time (esp over the past 1 year) the number of suspected sacrifices was increasing. I personally wondered aloud at the time whether those two issues weren't directly related to each other...
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By David Bale (139), Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:56:28 PDT
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Ben, I've just googled "child sacrifice uganda" and found nearly 35,000 results!
One recent newspaper report speaks of a march in Kampala on June 18th against child sacrifice, which is described in a curiously understated way as "one of the most cruel things one can do to a child".
Similarly, the article implies that child sacrifice is not apparently regarded as an illegal practice at present:
This is so shocking!