Conviction Southern African muti Muti and body-part belief Balama, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique · 2016

Cabo Delgado albino ritual murder: two men sentenced to 35 years on a ritual specialist's instructions

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

ritual/muti specialist (instigator), perpetrators acting on ritual instruction

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The killing and mutilation were carried out on the direct instruction of a ritual/muti specialist to obtain body parts for medicine — the ritual-murder-for-medicine mechanism documented across the region.

Ritual, oath, or initiation
Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2016-05-13 · trial verdict and sentence

Cabo Delgado Provincial Court, Pemba, Mozambique. The Cabo Delgado Provincial Court convicted two men of the November 2015 killing and mutilation of a 15-year-old albino boy near a primary school; both confessed in court that they acted on the instructions of an unidentified man, and each was sentenced to 35 years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

ritual instruction to kill for body parts

Primary record

Sources

regional court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Mozambique: Long Prison Sentences for Killers of Albino', allAfrica.com (Club of Mozambique), 13 May 2016.: The report records the Cabo Delgado Provincial Court's conviction and 35-year sentences, the courtroom confessions, and that the killing was carried out on a third party's ritual instruction for body parts.
regional court reporting contemporaneous context 'Mueda: Another albino murdered in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique', Club of Mozambique, 2016.: Club of Mozambique corroborates the regional pattern of albino ritual killings in Cabo Delgado.

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