Cabo Delgado albino ritual murder: two men sentenced to 35 years on a ritual specialist's instructions
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
ritual/muti specialist (instigator), perpetrators acting on ritual instruction
Organization
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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
Cited 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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- https://allafrica.com/stories/201605130797.html Corpus classification: regional-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report.
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- Source and tier basis
- https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mueda-another-albino-murdered-in-cabo-delgado-mozambique-9293/ Corpus classification: regional-court-reporting; evidentiary role: contemporaneous-context.
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