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Title: Police arrest two suspected human skinners
Source: Reuters
URL Source: http://reuters.myway.com/article/20 ... 417_RTRIDST_0_ODD-SKINNINGS-DC
Published: May 13, 2005
Author: N/A
Post Date: 2005-05-19 15:53:58 by 1776
Keywords: suspected, skinners, Police
Views: 202
Comments: 15

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian police arrested two men accused of killing a 9-year-old boy and selling his skin for 20,000 shillings ($18) to make sorcerers' get-rich-quick charms, a senior officer said Friday.

Police said they arrested Martin Kalunga, 25, and his associate Nico Benson, 31, in Lilwa village in southern Tanzania Tuesday after neighbors overheard Benson accusing Kalunga of plotting with their buyer to skin him as well.

The identity of the buyer was unclear.

"The two were arrested after they had a loud quarrel, because Benson suspected Martin of colluding with their buyer to skin him," Suleiman Kova, police commander for the southern Mbeya region, told Reuters.

"During interrogation, Martin confessed that they were both skinners and that they had skinned a boy in Mbozi six months ago. They then threw his body into the river Jianga," Kova said.

"These cases are few but are very shocking," he said.

Kova said police expected to charge the pair once they had completed investigations into the identity of the victim, whose remains have not been found.

He said he was not aware of any report of a missing child that would match the description given by the suspects, but police were still making inquiries.

Human skins are used by witch doctors to make charms or potions designed to make their users rich, especially in southern Tanzania, renowned as a center for traditional sorcery.

Police say the once rampant practice has decreased significantly in recent years due to tougher action by the authorities, describing this as the first suspected skinning case in southern Tanzania since April 2004.

Kova said there were three reported cases of skinning in 2003 and 14 suspects have been arrested since April last year in relation to various skinning cases, although providing evidence of skin removal is often difficult.

"We have to find a body and do a post mortem to have a good case," Kova said.

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#1. To: 1776 (#0)

Yep, more reasons to expand the death penalty to idiocy like this.

What do you want to bet, these pricks only get 5 years.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-05-19   15:55:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: zipporah, Jhoffa_, aristeides, Judson, Dakmar, Don, robin, christine (#0)

Tanzanian police arrested two men accused of killing a 9-year-old boy and selling his skin for 20,000 shillings ($18) to make sorcerers' get-rich-quick charms

This is also in America, in Great Britain, and elswhere that diversity has blossomed.
Is hell here, now?

1776  posted on  2005-05-19   15:56:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: 1776 (#2)

Killing a kid for 18 bucks. How fucking sad is that? Not just murdering him, but skinning him. This lunacy of religion has got to go. If people knew that magic didn't work, spells, charms, and all that other shit were just bunk, you wouldn't see people killing each other like this.

Of course, these are the same kinds of people who rape infants to cure themselves of AIDS, and HIV.

This is exactly why a plague is needed, to bring about equilibrium, and enlightenment.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-05-19   16:01:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: 1776 (#2)

This is also in America, in Great Britain, and elswhere that diversity has blossomed.
Is hell here, now?

You ever notice all the eggheads that blather on about "celebrating diversity" live in gated communities?

Dakmar  posted on  2005-05-19   16:06:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: 1776 (#2)

This is also in America, in Great Britain, and elswhere that diversity has blossomed.
Is hell here, now?

I usually like a little diversity, with some discernment. Discerning diversity.

Demonic criminals of any flavor, are not my cup of tea.

This story vaguely reminds of the recent Wendy's lawsuit.
SAN JOSE — Police say the man whose finger was allegedly planted in a bowl of chili as part of a scheme to exact money from the Wendy's restaurant chain sold it to cover a $50 debt.

Martinez, in the sworn statement, said Plascencia told police that he "purchased the injured co-worker's detached finger and advised that he intended to use the finger to create a lawsuit by planting the finger in food at an undisclosed restaurant."

Take a good look at this English-as-a-second-language hispanic woman. She has a history of weird lawsuits. And now she claims the police fractured her daughter's arm while they searched her home.

robin  posted on  2005-05-19   16:46:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)

If people knew that magic didn't work, spells, charms, and all that other shit were just bunk,

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Indrid Cold  posted on  2005-05-19   16:58:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: 1776 (#2)

Is hell here, now?

certainly the satanists and luciferians are here in abundance.

christine  posted on  2005-05-19   19:13:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)

If people knew that magic didn't work, spells, charms, and all that other shit were just bunk, you wouldn't see people killing each other like this.

The practice of satanism with human and animal sacrifices is rampant all over the world. Whether it works or not, who is to say? The point is these evil doers believe that it does.

christine  posted on  2005-05-19   19:15:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: christine, zipporah, robin (#7)

certainly the satanists and luciferians are here in abundance

The god of this world is well pleased (2 Corinthians 4:4)

As far as occultic practices, the Bible speaks of such things as being real

1776  posted on  2005-05-19   19:46:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: christine (#7)

certainly the satanists and luciferians are here in abundance.

I'll admit to occasionally downing a few cognacs, queueing up a Ronnie James Dio CD while watching The Flintstones, and tossing out the obligatory Hail Satan, but to be honest I never took it all that seriously.

Dakmar  posted on  2005-05-19   19:55:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Dakmar (#10)

but to be honest I never took it all that seriously.

as long as you haven't skinned kids and animals, i won't either.

christine  posted on  2005-05-19   20:05:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: christine (#11)

No, that's just wrong. I draw the line right at the edge of offending bluenoses.

Dakmar  posted on  2005-05-19   20:09:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: christine (#11)

as long as you haven't skinned kids and animals

I purchased some nice smoothed slippers and lamp shades at the last "Holocaust Convention" in Nuremberg...

Eoghan  posted on  2005-05-19   20:14:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Eoghan (#13)

you're bad. ;)

christine  posted on  2005-05-19   20:15:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: christine (#8)

That's just it. Satanism, and all those other bunk religions where they derive power from the suffering and blood of innocents, is just a bunch of horseshit.

The fact that these deluded morons believe in it, is why I totally believe that the stupid, and insane should be sterilized for the good of humanity. We can't have stupid people running everything, especially government.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-05-19   20:48:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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