rashore Posted March 25, 2017 #1 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Quote NYASHANA, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Tanzanian widow Ruth Zacharia raised her right arm to protect her skull from a volley of machete blows, her three attackers sliced through her hand. She fell to the floor; one leg slid into the kitchen fire. "They said: 'We have been sent by our mother because you killed our father so that you could buy that land'," the 63-year-old recalled, fidgeting with her stiff, scarred right hand. "I said: 'I am not a witch'... They started cutting me all over." Thousands of elderly Tanzanian women have been strangled, knifed to death and burned alive over the last two decades after being denounced as witches. "They said that (they) are witches... but it was a hidden agenda," said Athanasio Kweyunga, human rights coordinator for the Magu Poverty Eradication Rehabilitation Centre (MAPERECE), a charity helping elderly people in the area. "The reason is land." http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN16S1RB-OZATP?sp=true 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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