'Adam' is believed to have been killed in a ritualistic murder
Children are being trafficked into the UK from Africa and used for human sacrifices, a confidential report for the Metropolitan Police suggests.
Children are being beaten and even murdered after being labelled as witches by pastors, the report leaked to BBC Radio 4's Today programme said.
Police face a "wall of silence" in investigations because of fear and mistrust among the groups involved.
It follows the case of a girl tortured by her guardians for being a witch.
Three people, including the girl's aunt, were convicted of trying to "beat the devil out of" the un-named 10-year-old - originally from Angola.
The report was commissioned by the Met after the death of Victoria Climbie in February 2000 and because of concerns over so-called faith crimes.
For spells to be powerful it required a sacrifice of a male child unblemished by circumcision
Police report
The 10-month probe was also intended to be part of efforts to "open a dialogue" with Asian and African communities to prevent child abuse in the London boroughs of Hackney and Newham.
Information was gathered with the help of social workers, human rights lawyers and race relations experts from within these ethnic minority groups.
Today programme reporter Angus Stickler, who obtained the police report due to be published later this month, described it as "absolutely chilling".
"The most gruesome details come from the African communities," he said.
"This report talks of rituals, of witchcraft, being practised in churches in London. It is described as big business."
'Dead meat'
It said that people who are desperate seek out churches to cast spells for them.
"Members of the workshop said for spells to be powerful it required a sacrifice of a male child unblemished by circumcision," the report said.
Contributors said boys were being trafficked into the UK for this purpose, but did not give details because they said they feared they would be "dead meat" if they told any more.
They always seem to base their models on the fact that Africans are less civilised, less rational
Dr William Les Henry
There were also claims that youngsters were being smuggled into the UK as domestic slaves and for men with HIV who believed if they had sex with a child they would be cleansed.
One HIV outreach worker who spoke to the BBC News website said a small minority of Africans who came to his sessions had begun to mention this as a possible solution to their problems.
The authors of the report point out that these claims are only allegations.
They also claim that children could be in "serious and possible life-threatening situations".
Perhaps there's something terrible happening out there which we are not aware of
John Azah
Met Police adviser
It is not clear how widespread the practices are within African communities, but those working with minority groups suggest it is fairly small-scale.
The report also spoke of a wide gulf between child protection agencies and those in the communities involved, which means people are reluctant to get in touch with the authorities.
Police described this as a "wall of silence" prompted by concerns that individuals would be "betraying" their family, community and faith if they spoke out.
It also acknowledged the sensitivity of the issue as the abuse was a product of individuals' faith and beliefs.
Independent adviser to the Met John Azah said that since the Climbie case and the ritualistic murder of a black child known as "Adam", there were concerns the police were only touching the "tip of the iceberg".
People are being moved across the whole world essentially for money, by very substantial criminal organisations
Home Secretary Charles Clarke
"A few weeks ago the Met put out a number of 300 black children missing from schools.
"There's no evidence that any of these children have been traced.
"Therefore perhaps there's something terrible happening out there which we are not aware of."
This was why the police, quite rightly, were doing quite a lot of work to see if children were being murdered or not, he added.
But Dr William Les Henry, a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmith's College, said there was an element of racism about the report.
He said: "The model that they're based on, they always seem to base their models on the fact that Africans are less civilized, less rational, so their whole systems of rationality are irrational."
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said it was important countries worked together to tackle crimes related to people-trafficking.
Mutilation
The Met had a special unit to address these particular issues, he said.
"But it's classically an issue, like all people-trafficking issues, where people are being moved across the whole world, essentially for money, by very substantial criminal organisations."
The challenge was how could the organisations most effectively be contested, he said.
Sita Kasanga was one of three people who tortured a girl she believed to be a witch
The report called for the social services department to determine how many faith organisations exist and where they are situated.
But Pastor Nims Obunge from the Freedom's Arc Church emphasised that most African churches were entirely legitimate and overseen within a wider structure.
"We do not condone any form of cultish practices and I think we need to define the difference between a cult and a church, that's an important thing and I'm a bit wary when we use the term 'church' in a loose fashion."
The report also urged the Met to highlight the work of child protection agencies to try to encourage the reporting of crimes.
The Met said the report was drawn up after workshops debating issues such as female genital mutilation, physical chastisement, forced marriage and faith-related child abuse were held.
It added: "The recommendations in the report are being carefully considered at the highest levels in the MPS in conjunction with partner agencies and community groups." _________________ The pussy is free, but the crack cost money (BDP 1989)
But Dr William Les Henry, a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmith's College, said there was an element of racism about the report.
He said: "The model that they're based on, they always seem to base their models on the fact that Africans are less civilized, less rational, so their whole systems of rationality are irrational."
Comme tous les bons prof de socio, ce connard se preoccuppe beaucoup plus de lutter contre le racisme que de ce qui arrive vraiment a des jeunes noirs en angleterre. Je suppose qu'il nous sortira un papier qui nous exhorte a comprendre et a accepter la sacrifice humain parce que c'est une expresssion legitime de la culture africaine mais faut pas le denoncer parce ue c'est du racisme, blah blah blah blah .
Personellement je pense qu'il est exact de parler de manque de rationalité en afrique. Combien de personnes de font tuer parce qu'elle sont des "sorcieres" ? Combien d'enfants se font depecer partout en afrique noire, du Nigeria a l' Afrique du Sud en passant par le Gabon et la Tanzanie ? On devrait se taire et ne rien dire a propos de ces choses la parce que c'est raciste de dire que nous les noirs on se livre a cela ?
On fera mieux d'arreter et peut etre , en passant, de punir de la façon la plus examplaire et impitoyable TOUS les sacrificateurs, les enleveurs d'enfants, ceux qui les achetent, ceux qui les vendent ceux qui commanditent ces sacrifices, enfin TOUS ceux qui sont impliqués . Quand a moi je les executerais tous car franchement ça me repugne et me fait vomir ces croyances et ces actes la . On pourrait aussi en meme temps passer au feu les cannibales qui se sont recemment retrouvé une vocation dans certains pays. Bref, je suis CONTRE ces barbares reliques d'un sombre passé et tous ces sauvages dont les agissements sont une plaie pour la reputation des noirs partout dans le monde.
Un rapport de la police britannique évoque des pratiques de sorcellerie criminelles. Certaines entraîneraient le sacrifice de jeunes enfants.
D es enfants africains sont sacrifiés en Grande-Bretagne lors de rituels de magie noire ou tués par leurs parents qui les croient possédés par des démons, révèle un rapport de la police britannique divulgué jeudi 16 juin.
A la suite de cas de maltraitance sur des enfants africains, la police a commandé un rapport sur les facteurs culturels pouvant favoriser ces mauvais traitements, rédigé à partir des témoignages recueillis pendant dix mois dans les communautés africaines et asiatiques de Londres.
Des groupes de travail ont été constitués pour "ouvrir un dialogue" avec les communautés et "encourager le débat" sur des sujets comme les punitions corporelles, les abus liés à des croyances religieuses, mais aussi les mariages forcés ou l'excision, a indiqué Scotland Yard.
Le rapport, divulgué par la BBC jeudi avant sa publication prévue ce mois-ci, évoque des pratiques de sorcellerie très répandues dans les églises de Londres fréquentées par les communautés africaines. Ces églises représentent des activités très lucratives qui s'étendent au-delà du Royaume-Uni, en Europe ou en Afrique.
Sacrifice
Publicité
"Des gens désespérés vont voir des experts en sorcellerie pour qu'ils jettent un sort en leur faveur. Des membres du groupe de travail ont affirmé que pour qu'un sort soit efficace, il exige le sacrifice d'un enfant mâle qui n'a pas été circoncis", indique un extrait de ce rapport cité par la BBC.
"Ils affirment que des enfants mâles sont amenés au Royaume Uni dans ce but", poursuit le document. Mais ils se refusent à en révéler davantage, par crainte de représailles.
Le rapport évoque aussi un trafic d'enfants amenés au Royaume Uni pour servir d'esclaves domestiques ou sexuels ou pour des hommes porteurs du virus de sida qui croient qu'ils seront "purifiés" s'ils ont des rapports sexuels avec un enfant.
Des enfants considérés comme possédés par des chefs religieux, très influents dans ces communautés, sont battus, voire tués par leurs familles.
Dans un cas, un homme se serait suicidé après avoir tué quatre de ses enfants, qu'un pasteur avait accusés d'être possédés.
Les auteurs du rapport avertissent qu'il s'agit de témoignages qui ne sont pas corroborés par des preuves matérielles.
Ils relèvent la réticence des communautés à rapporter ces crimes ou à coopérer avec la police et évoquent un "mur du silence".
Iceberg
Faute de dénonciation, la police ne découvre ces cas que par hasard et le fait que ces pratiques sont liées à des croyances religieuses complique sa tâche.
"Il y a fort à craindre que nous ne fassions que découvrir la partie émergée de l'iceberg", a déclaré sur la BBC John Azah, un conseiller de la police londonienne.
L'attention a été attirée sur ces pratiques par la découverte en 2001 dans la Tamise du corps démembré d'un enfant âgé entre 4 et 7 ans. Les enquêteurs ont découvert qu'il était nigérian et pensent qu'il a été tué lors d'un sacrifice rituel.
Au cours de l'enquête, la police a découvert que 300 garçons noirs (299 d'origine africaine et un des Caraïbes) ont disparu des écoles londoniennes entre juillet et septembre 2001. On n'a pu retrouver la trace que de deux d'entre eux.
Plusieurs procès ont eu lieu pour mauvais traitements sur des fillettes africaines amenées au Royaume Uni par des femmes qui se présentaient comme leurs mères pour obtenir des prestations sociales.
L'une d'elles, Victoria Climbie, une Ivoirienne de 8 ans, accusée de sorcellerie par ses proches, est morte en février 2000.
Début juin, trois Angolais ont été condamnés pour avoir maltraité une orpheline angolaise de 8 ans, qu'ils accusaient d'être une sorcière. Pour l'exorciser, ses tortionnaires l'avaient lacérée au couteau, battue avec une ceinture et lui avait frotté les yeux avec des piments. _________________ The pussy is free, but the crack cost money (BDP 1989)
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Posté le: Sam 18 Juin 2005 14:27 Sujet du message: Re: sacrifices d'enfant africain en angleterre
Marin.R.Delany a écrit:
ogunsiron a écrit:
Comme tous les bons prof de socio, ce connard se preoccuppe beaucoup plus de lutter contre le racisme que de ce qui arrive vraiment a des jeunes noirs en angleterre. Je suppose qu'il nous sortira un papier qui nous exhorte a comprendre et a accepter la sacrifice humain parce que c'est une expresssion legitime de la culture africaine mais faut pas le denoncer parce ue c'est du racisme, blah blah blah blah .
Hotep
Tu es en Angleterre pour savir que ce mec est un connard? Sais tu pkoi il parle de racisme. T propos me rappellent ceux de Kelman ou des assimilassinistes en general.
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Salut Marin,
Je suis cette affaire depuis presque 2 ans sinon plus, sur le site de la BBC et autres. C'est un véritable scandale la bas. De plus, j'ai grandi en sachant que durant certaines periodes (elections par example), on retrouvait des enfants sacrifiés sur les plages dans certains pays africains.
Cela fait des années que je lis ou que j'entends parler de sacrifices d'enfants ou d'adultes dans divers pays d'afrique noire. Ce ne sont pas que des médias occidentaux qui en parlent, crois moi.
Je trouve que ce type detourne le sujet tout simplement. Ce rapport denonce une tare, une plaie, une maladie, une horreur dont nous les noirs avons la quasi-exclusivité dans le monde moderne. Oui je suis sur qu'il y a 2000 ans les sacrifices humains etaient tres repandues un peu partout, c'est facilelment prouvable. En 2005, par contre, je pense qu'on fait bcp plus que notre juste part dans ce domaine la et c'est un scandale.
Je suis partisant de moins de magie, moins de religion pour les noirs. Personellement je n'accorde aucune importance a ces CONNERIES. Il n'est pas realiste de demander a tout le monde d'etre comme moi mais le noir gagnerait bcp a prendre ces choses la * moins au serieux* .
Est- il possible d'admettre que certains traditions n'ont tout simplement pas de place dans notre avenir si on veut arriver a quelque chose nous les noirs ? Mes ancetres etaient des etres humains et non des dieux donc ils ont tres bien pu se tromper sur certaines choses .
Fuck le cancer mental de la magie et de la religion !
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Qu'est-ce que le ratinnel? Pose toi cette question et tu verras que l'Afro (le vrai) est rationnel tout comme le toubob que tu sembles venerer la seule difference est qu'ils ont un systeme de penser different. Toute
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Oui bien sur l'Africain agit selon des regles qui ont leur propre logique, evidemment. Quand je parle de rationalité je parle de la rationalité occidentale et je l'avoue que j'en suis un chaud partisan. J'ajouterai aussi que cette rationalité/science occidentale n'a rien de genetiquement occidental. Il se trouyve que ce sont eux qui ont fait la synthese de milliers d'années de civilizations un peu partout, en y ajoutant leur propre contributuion non negligeable, quoique certains en disent.
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norme est bassé sur un systeme... une coordonnée dans un systeme orthonormé n'est pas forcement la meme dans un autre systeme non normé.
Par ailleurs, je te rappelerai que les toubobs font pareille avec les musulmans mais bien sur ce snt des gens ratinnels donc cela ne pse pas de pb. Si tu regardes bien tu verras que tu parles de rebelle et non de la population lambda... de personnes qui sont sous influences etrangeres.
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Y'a eu des rebellions qui ont duré des decennies au soudan, en angola et dand d'autres pays. Je doute que ces rebelles la ont reussi a infliger au population les tortures et les horreurs que les bandits-criminels-fetichistes-sorciers-cannibales-depeceurs congolais , sierra leonais et liberiens ont infligé a leur compatriotes.
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Qui sont ces sacrificateurs? Pourrais tu nous en dire plus... tu serais etonnée de voir qu'ils sont soutenus par tes ratinnalistes.
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Tu veux peut etre dire que les atrocités a l'est du congo beneficient a des compagnies. En tous cas, soutenus ou non, les gens doivent faire face a leur responsabilité a un moment donné. Les criminels impliqués dans ces affaires meritent le pire, point a la ligne.
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Posté le: Dim 19 Juin 2005 23:27 Sujet du message:
Certes, mais c'est bien de pouvoir en discuter entre nous en ces lieux, car personnellement, je n'étais absolument pas au courant de ces massacres.
Ca me fait juste froid dans le dos.
Paix à leurs âmes de chérubins.
Hotep,
Soudjata _________________ La vérité rougit l'oeil, mais ne saurait le transpercer
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ayanna a écrit:
Ne tombons pas dans le piege tendu par ces journalistes
la maltraitance envers les enfants est malheureusement partagee par tous les peuples du monde
Ce n'est pas non plus une raison pour fermer les yeux, ou pour minimiser la situation. _________________ The pussy is free, but the crack cost money (BDP 1989)
Posté le: Lun 20 Juin 2005 10:47 Sujet du message:
ayanna a écrit:
Ne tombons pas dans le piege tendu par ces journalistes
la maltraitance envers les enfants est malheureusement partagee par tous les peuples du monde
Excuse moi mais d'une part il s'agirait de meurtres et de mutilations rituels, rien à voir avec des mauvais traitements.
D'autre part c'est super drôle de lire un grioonaute utiliser l'argument qui consiste à dire "les autres aussi...", alors que lorsque d'autres traites sont évoquées vous criez au révisionisme. _________________ Le titre du bouquin de Bilé c'est "Noirs dans les camps Nazis" pas "Noirs Nazi"^^
Posté le: Sam 02 Juil 2005 10:58 Sujet du message:
speciale dedicace skelter et kennedy
Citation:
How media whipped up a racist witch-hunt
Despite the lurid headlines, police dismiss claims of child sacrifice
Ian Cobain and Vikram Dodd
Saturday June 25, 2005
The Guardian
The front-page headline leaping from the newsstands could not have been more clear: "Children sacrificed in London churches, say police". At the same moment, the BBC was reporting that detectives trying to investigate the ritual murder of children accused of witchcraft were facing a "wall of silence". Lord Stevens, the recently retired commissioner of the Metropolitan police, was weighing in to damn African churches, which he said were "obsessed by witchcraft, exorcism and evil spirits".
We must", Lord Stevens railed in a Sunday newspaper column, "stop this madness costing children's lives."
It looked, at a casual glance, like an open-and-shut case: Scotland Yard must have investigated the ritual abuse of African children, found that significant numbers of them had endured violent exorcisms, and uncovered evidence of children being trafficked into this country to be slaughtered
Nothing is further from the truth. The police had conducted no such investigation, have scant evidence of ritual abuse of African children and - with the important exception of the young boy known as Adam, whose torso was found floating in the Thames four years ago - have seen nothing to suggest that any child has been sacrificed.
Media fascination with the "exorcism scandal" continued last week, however, reaching an almost hysterical pitch and leaving one police officer feeling he was "in the middle of a medieval witch-hunt". Others wondered whether they were edging towards "another Orkneys" - an alleged child abuse scandal on the islands that never was.
The tumult was triggered by a leak to the BBC of a report examining attitudes towards child abuse among ethnic minorities in east London. The report had been commissioned by Scotland Yard after the official inquiry into the death five years ago of Victoria Climbié. Back then, the Yard hailed the research project as "an exciting and ground-breaking" attempt to discover more about the way in which cultural and religious values influence opinions about abuse. "It was intended to open a dialogue, to give us a list of perceptions," a senior officer said last week. "It was not an investigation."
After 10 months of research, Perdeep Gill, a social worker, and Mor Dioum, a Senegal-born civil rights worker, delivered their 85-page report earlier this month.
During a meeting with members of an African community, the researchers had learned of a belief that children were being abused during exorcism rituals at Pentecostal churches. Many such churches have sprung up in Britain's inner cities in recent years, some taking over shops or small factories, others simply gathering in churchgoers' living rooms.
Some pastors, according to people interviewed, were denouncing children in the congregation as witches, or declaring them to be possessed by demons, then forcing them into exorcisms in which they were starved and beaten, or had objects forced down their throats. At least one person is said to have told the researchers he had heard about children being smuggled into Britain to be sacrificed
No evidence was offered to support these claims, and none was needed: Ms Gill and Mr Dioum had been asked to gauge beliefs, not establish facts, and the Yard believes there is no spate of ritual murders to investigateShortly after the leak, however, came a flurry of media accounts of "a shocking Scotland Yard report" which was said to detail the way in which young African boys, "unblemished by circumcision", were being smuggled through ports and airports to be slaughtered during the concoction of "powerful spells". One BBC reporter described the report as "absolutely chilling". The corporation says it stands fully behind its reporting.
Many newspapers, meanwhile, were reminding their readers that Scotland Yard had disclosed a few weeks earlier that 299 African boys had vanished from London school rolls.
Few mentioned that the police also said they were highlighting an administrative problem, and had no reason to believe any missing child, other than "Adam", had come to any harm.
African church ministers and their congregations were outraged. "There is a lot of anger - we are taking a hit for something we are not engaged in," said the Rev Nims Obunge, the minister of an evangelical church in north London.
Backlash
Lee Jasper, an adviser to London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, turned his fire on the police, accusing them of being responsible for "a very dangerous report" which was resulting in "a racist witch-hunt of African communities".
Amid this backlash, senior officers decided not to publish the report, fearing that to do so would unleash more lurid reporting and burn more bridges to African communities.
Nevertheless, many at the Yard remain convinced that it was a worthwhile research project. Indeed, the evidence of a degree of superstition among some Africans in Britain is obvious to anyone who reads the Voice, the national black newspaper. Each week the paper carries up to two pages of display advertisements for self-styled marabouts and psychics, men like "Professor Ki Kee", who offers help with "voodoo and witchcraft" from his council flat in Peckham, or "Professor Baraka", who offers to assist "victims of black magic" from his house in Nottingham.
Nor is there any doubt that there has been a rapid growth in belief in child witches in some parts of Africa. Aid workers in Congo, in particular, say they are alarmed by the number of children accused of being witches who have been cast into the streets after denunciation by fundamentalist Protestant pastors.
Save the Children saw little evidence of this when it first established a large presence in Kinshasa, the capital, in 1994. But by 1999 it was so concerned that it conducted a survey, which showed that between 30% and 40% of the estimated 70,000 street children in just one area of the city had been abandoned by their families after being accused of witchcraft. The charity believes the phenomenon has grown steadily since.
"At the root of this problem is poverty, pure and simple," a spokesman said. "This is a country that has been deeply traumatised by war, disease and corruption, and where many people cannot afford to look after all of their children. One of the few growth industries is Pentecostal churches, which are offering salvation after years of bloodshed."
Too many pastors, he added, were encouraging a belief in child witches, and too many desperate parents were seizing upon a reason to have one less mouth to feed.
To date, however, just two "witchcraft" abuse cases have come before the British courts. Victoria Climbié, who was brought to London from the Ivory Coast by her aunt, suffered terrible abuse before being taken to a church in south London where the pastor decided that she was possessed. The beatings continued and she died soon afterwards.
Three people are awaiting sentence after being convicted this month of the abuse of an eight-year-old Angolan orphan. They starved the child, who can be identified only as Child B, struck and cut her, and rubbed chilli in her eyes in an attempt to drive out the "devil" within.
Richard Hoskins, an African religions specialist at King's College London, who advises the police, said he was aware of seven other recent cases where social workers had intervened: five in London, one in the south-west of England and one in the north-west. All involved people from Congo, he said.
There is also the deeply disturbing case of Adam, whose torso was dragged from the water near Tower Bridge in London in September 2001. He was aged between four and seven when he died, probably when his throat was cut, and forensic scientists have pinpointed the area of Nigeria where he was raised. Nobody has yet been charged with his murder, but detectives are convinced he was the victim of a ritualistic killing.
Commander David Johnston, head of child protection at Scotland Yard, said the police were well aware that "African communities do not tolerate the abuse of children any more than any other community". The Yard, he said, needed to know more about occasions when "issues of faith and culture, which are perfectly acceptable, may cross a boundary into becoming criminal abuse of children". He also said that "like in any other community, there are some people who are intent on harming children".
A seven-strong team of detectives under his command, in an operation named Project Violet, has been examining past child abuse cases to see whether any signs of ritualistic violence emerge from the files. While police say that ritual abuse, like all other forms of child abuse, is probably under-reported, Commander Johnston is convinced that such cases are "very rare".
Exactly how rare may be demonstrated by the child abuse figures from just one London borough. Over the last two years, social workers in Haringey have come across two children suffering ritual abuse, including Child B. Over the same period they have been alerted to about 6,000 cases of children in need, of whom about 650 were children in high need of protection, many of them suffering serious physical or sexual abuse.
Mr Obunge said it was this that most angered his congregation - a huge amount of attention being paid to allegations, largely unproven, of a relatively small amount of abuse by African people. "And it isn't gullible people who are to blame," he said. "It's a gullible press."
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j'avais entendu une histoire comme ça mais c'était en haîti 