Native superstitions being promoted by clergymen/witch
doctors are causing the slaughter of albinos in Africa.
(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Witch doctors in Tanzania are causing local albinos to be slaughtered. The witch doctors teach their followers that the organs and body parts of albinos will bring them wealth and good luck.
CNN reports that to date, seven people have been sentenced to death for killing more than 50 albinos for their organs and body parts.
One albino woman was attacked by a gang with machetes who tried to kill her. She managed to escape but had her hands cut off. Her attackers could sell her severed hands to witch doctors who then use them as ingredients in potions which are then sold to superstitious customers.
In an effort to stop these deadly atrocities the government has issued a ban on all traditional healers/witch doctors.
The common sense method of stopping this atrocity is to attack the root of the problem: superstition. The clergymen/healers, in this case, witch doctors, need to be exposed for the manipulative criminal liars that they are.
Witch doctors pretend to be able to heal people through their superstitions. Exposing them as frauds would be easy to do. The first step is the promotion of reason over superstition. And the first step in doing this is to stop giving respect to something that doesn't deserve it. In this case that would be the unreasonable beliefs and practices of the witch doctors. The finishing blow would be concrete examples of failures on the part of the witch doctors while showing successes on the part of medical healing. Also, penetrating behind the scenes of claims of success made by the witch doctors to clearly demonstrate their deceit and fabrications. These actions would have to be highly advertised to give the facts a chance to sink in.
The superstition and killings have already spread from Tanzania to neighboring Burundi where at least 12 people have been killed for their organs and body parts.
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