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Albino girl, 11, killed and beheaded in Swaziland ’for witchcraft’
Telegraph ^ | 8/20/10 | Aislinn Laing

Posted on 08/22/2010 11:52:06 AM PDT by LibWhacker

An 11-year-old albino girl from Swaziland was shot dead in front of her friends and then beheaded in what police believe was a ritual murder.

The child had been washing clothes and bathing at a river with friends and was returning home when she was grabbed by a man wearing a balaclava.

As her friends looked on, the man shot her in the back before dragging her away. Her headless body was found upriver a short time later.

The murder is the latest in a series of albino killings in Sub-Saharan Africa, where sufferers of the rare skin pigmentation condition are concentrated.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; albino; balaclava; beheaded; child; girl; murder; ritualmurder; subsaharanafrica; swaziland; witchcraft
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1 posted on 08/22/2010 11:52:10 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Africa will always be a backwards place until they get rid of their feudal overlords, the chiefs by day and the chiefs by night.


2 posted on 08/22/2010 11:54:45 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: LibWhacker

I’m never going to get used to this “cultural diversity” bull****.


3 posted on 08/22/2010 11:57:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS! America's Taliban!)
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To: LibWhacker

Think this will be prosecuted as a hate crime?


4 posted on 08/22/2010 11:58:53 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: LibWhacker

How have the Africans managed to stay so stupid for so long?


5 posted on 08/22/2010 11:59:52 AM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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Amazing, isn’t it?


6 posted on 08/22/2010 12:03:26 PM PDT by johniegrad
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The west would still be like that had it not been for the rise of Christianity. The west will become increasingly more like that as Christianity is rejected.


7 posted on 08/22/2010 12:04:39 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: himno hero
....when she was grabbed by a man wearing a balaclava.

8 posted on 08/22/2010 12:07:12 PM PDT by Krankor (What a field day for the heat. A thousand people in the street)
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To: LibWhacker

Talk about not fitting in...


9 posted on 08/22/2010 12:07:27 PM PDT by goseminoles
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LOL!!! I thought the same thing!


10 posted on 08/22/2010 12:08:42 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Aria
Probly just like everyone else.
12 posted on 08/22/2010 12:09:41 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
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To: LibWhacker

Hey - liberals say all cultures are equal...


13 posted on 08/22/2010 12:11:45 PM PDT by GOPJ (Are Time Magazine staff members coservativephobes?)
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‘How have the Africans managed to stay so stupid for so long?’

Practice...lots of practice.


14 posted on 08/22/2010 12:12:42 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: himno hero

Stated more succinctly - Africa will always be a backwards place.


15 posted on 08/22/2010 12:14:08 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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Remember, “all cultures are equal”


16 posted on 08/22/2010 12:14:20 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: GOPJ

Probably what is to become the fate of light skinned folk.


17 posted on 08/22/2010 12:14:56 PM PDT by ully2 (ully)
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To: LibWhacker
"I hate every iota of a cracker"


18 posted on 08/22/2010 12:16:41 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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No, the nutty ‘culturally equal’ practice of witchcraft in that area of the world uses albinos only... white people’s body parts don’t ‘work’...


19 posted on 08/22/2010 12:16:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (Are Time Magazine staff members coservativephobes?)
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On his head? Must have truly been a sight!

That said, I think he should have been shot for pure stupidity!

Poor child, it’s heart breaking to hear these things. Another reason that Africa is and will always be a third world continent.


20 posted on 08/22/2010 12:16:55 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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