Some things never change

If those are witches imagine how long I'd last in Africa.

Humans can be as evil as the devil sometimes.

Africa wins again.

they just need some hope. We should send them some.







 

So a mob rounded up some old people that couldn't fight back and burned them alive, while beating them with sticks or anything else they could find, for being "witches".  Yeah, stay classy Africa.

Identify village.  Carpet bomb village.

World Star Hip Hop, Kenya Style.

My magic 8-ball tells me I have nothing to gain from watching that video.  I listen to my magic 8-ball.

you'll learn Africans can't build a proper fire and pick on the weak and feeble

LOL. They couldn't even get that right.



 

Disgusting.  I couldn't even make it through the whole thing

Yeah I watched the whole video and kept noticing this theme that they suck at making fires.  You know a pretty simple thing to do which explains why they don't have concrete sidewalks there.

It takes a village.

Coming soon to a village near you.

Probably those victims knew they could not fight or run, just had to accept it.  Even possible they had participated in the torture of other people previously.  On the other hand, what if they really were guilty  of some serious crime?  But probably, this was just stress relief for the group.  Bet they all felt good about themselves afterwards, especially the particulary active ones.

I already knew that.  Magic 8-ball wins again.

Fucking animals.

Those guys REALLY suck at burning people!

Europeans had the good sense to bind the condemned person's hands and secure them to a stake.

Fucking animals.

In all seriousness, there truly is potential for it to be a great place.

It's most likely why Africa is Africa today.

97% of them voted for Obama!
So.....when the reckoning comes.....you'll have a 97% chance of being right!

thats the exact line that popped up into my head when I first saw the video...

no, there's not.  If history has taught us anything, is that it takes virtue for a "place" to be truly great.  that continent is ludicrously short of virtue or morals.  It'll never be great. infinite money, infinite aid, infinite whatever,  there will still be stealing, looting, genocides,  mass killings,  etc.

What smells like BBQ?

not so much a pit really. Just a large ditch.

I was referring to the land and natural resources.

Obama family reunion?

Ureal

 Really?

Man.  It sure looks like we need to send them some more money and resources.

I saw that on a shirt yesterday.

Pretty distinct similarity to the "knockout game" videos that are all the rage in Obongo's cities....

AK47, so easy a monkey can do it.

Village stoning. So they're a couple of hundred years behind us. It's better than another type of society (dedicated to the moon) that's 1400 years behind the rest of the industrialized world.

ETA: I guess I should factor in the lynchings w/ burnings so 40 years behind us.

Sort of reminds me of a stoning that I saw in Senegal when I was 12-13. I wanted to try and stop it but my 12-16 year old Senegalese friends stopped me. They kept telling me that "Allah willed it". I still have dreams about it but they probably saved my life. I am certain that they would have stoned me for interfering.

Fight fire with fire.....let them all burn.

3rd World + "Democracy" = FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

Seems that was just a case of mob mentality escalading violence if you ask me. A group of young thugs singles out some victims that are unable to defend themselves and then do ever escalading violent acts on them to the point of death. Meanwhile a large crowd that could clearly have been strong enough to stop them sat around and just watched. Makes me wonder if it wasn't a group of drug henchmen with AKs terrorizing a village for the fun of it? It all left me with two thoughts:
1. evil is still alive and well in the world
2. mob mentality can happen anywhere and for those that doubt it could happen here... go watch vid of the LA riots and particularly the truck driver.

I think most of us are prepared for violent acts gun wise but I wonder how many of us are prepared mentally for it? Not just violence against us but violence against others... do we stand by and do nothing or do we fight for what is right?

Probably not able to offer much resistance with a concussion and battered limbs.

The pensioners being burned alive as witches by their own FAMILIES... so they can profit from lucrative land

Land owner Sadaka Muruu, 100, 'dragged naked from her home by relatives'
But councillor arrived in time to save woman and drove her to rescue centre
Cllr Teddy Mwambire's probe finds relatives can arrange killing for only £30
Shocking video emerged in 2009 showing five villagers burned in Nyamataro
By MARK DUELL
PUBLISHED: 12:10 EST, 4 November 2012 | UPDATED: 12:51 EST, 4 November 2012


Growing desires for land along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastline are allegedly causing a rise in ‘witch lynchings’ by residents to intimidate their elderly relatives who own the title deeds of desirable areas.
Sadaka Muruu, 100, who owns 12 acres of sought-after land in coastal Kilifi county, claimed she was told by her grandchildren that they would burn her alive after investors asked about purchasing it.
The frightened grandmother was allegedly dragged naked from her home in January by relatives who had turned up without notice, and told neighbours they had caught her doing witchcraft.

But she was saved at the last minute by local councillor Teddy Mwambire, who drove her away to a rescue centre for elderly men and women accused of witchcraft, reported the Sunday Times.
Others have suffered a much-worse fate, with more than 50 people aged over 60 lynched this year over witchcraft accusations. Seven were killed in Cllr Mwambire’s district in Kilifi alone this summer.

Some were burned to death in front of villagers. Other victims were fatally hit with machetes - such as Thomas Barawa, 79, who died in August just four weeks after his wife suffered the same fate.
Cllr Mwambire led an independent probe into witchcraft and found relatives can arrange a killing for the equivalent of only £30.

Relatives are the top suspects in almost all of the killings. But police are struggling to bring cases to court because they cannot get anybody to give evidence.
Most victims who escape death and end up at guarded rescue centres are too scared to ever return home as they risk death if their angry relatives see them again, reported the Sunday Times.
Many poor communities in the African country rely on spiritual healers, sorcery and black magic.
Three years ago uproar was caused after a video emerged on the internet showing five people burned in the village of Nyamataro, Kisii, in the west of Kenya, over witchcraft allegations.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227693/Elderly-Kenyans-burned-alive-witches-refusing-desirable-coastline-land.html#ixzz2n7BWu8Cr

It's interesting to me that, the continent that scholars say is the birthplace of man hasn't changed much since then.  It seems that the patterns of movement they claim have those who travel the farthest being the most civilized, while those who stayed behind being the least.  Now, it could be that those cultures who travel the most learn the most, or maybe they were already civilized, just trying to get the hell away from the "family."

I don't even have the words for this.

Boggles my mind that the world is advanced enough for there to be a digital recording of this, but there are still people who
believe in witches and witchcraft

Return to Africa's Witch Children

A story of an estimated 15,000 children in Africa's Niger Delta being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Ellin is one such child. Found at the side of the road, her body having been severely burnt with boiling water. Nwanakwo, eight years old, had acid poured over him after being labeled a wizard, and later died.
Return to Africa's Witch Children is a documentary that follows the work of Gary Foxcroft, an Englishman whose charity, Stepping Stones, raises funds to help care for more than 150 children accused of witchcraft, and blamed for catastrophes, death and famine. Narrated by Sophie Okonedo.

Watch the documentary

Before I pass judgement I'd like to know if this is having any real effect on the instances of witchcraft over there.

If you'll remember we, as a country, went to pretty extreme measures to eradicate it here as well. You cannot stand idle in the face of evil.