6 people accused of killing magic, 2 of whom are alive, in Burundi, the official says: “Berber is indescribable.” star-news.press/wp

Six people accused Magic A local official told AFP on Wednesday that they were killed, burned alive, stoned or hit by a militia in Burundi.

The official and the witnesses, who were all asked not to be identified, said that the accident occurred on Monday after accusing the strong members of the ruling party, known as Imbonrakure.

The group is described as a militia by the United Nations and law organizations.

“I entered a group of young Imbonerakure homes about 10 people accused of magic. Then they attacked them,” according to the official from Gasara Hill, six miles east of the economic capital in Burundi, Bogombora.

The official said: “Six people were killed, and two were burning alive. Others were beaten to death with clubs or stoned them with the large stones that were thrown on their heads,” the official said. “It was a shocking brutality, indescribable.”

The official said that three other people were beaten, but were eventually rescued after the police intervened.

Several unable to social media have been distributed since Tuesday.

Some clips are approved to AFP by two witnesses, also the group that the group has identified as Imbonrakure.

Several rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, accused Imbonrakure of killing dozens of people, especially in light of the authoritarian rule of former President Pierre Nkoronziza, in power from 2005 to 2020.

“Imbonerakure members, some of them armed, arrested, abused, kill the opponents of the suspects, and sometimes in cooperation with or with the support of local administrative officials, police or intelligence agents,” According to Human Rights Watch.

The governor of Bogombora Province said the desire for NSENGIYUMVA on Tuesday that 12 people were arrested by the accident.

“The justice of unacceptable mobs,” said that the local population has wrongly attributed the recent unjustified deaths to the victims.

Often the small nation is Christian, traditional beliefs deeply rooted with unjustified deaths often on magic.

Only last year, the Supreme Court sentenced the former Prime Minister to life imprisonment on charges “including using magic to threaten the president’s life, destabilize the economy and illegal enrichment.”

Belief in magic is still common in many rural societies along the West Africa coast, and elsewhere on the continent.

Earlier this year, Amnesty International said Hundreds of people suspected of magic in Ghana face rampant human rights violations, including killing.

In February, there were two men in Zambia He was accused of practicing magic And owning magic aimed at harming the country’s president.

Belief in magic is also common in some rural societies in Angola, despite the strong opposition from the Church in the former Portuguese Catholic colony. Last year, the police said About 50 people died In Angola, after forcing him to drink a herbal dose to prove that they are not a witch.

During the 2009 trip to Angola, Pope Benedict urged Catholics Shun Witchcraft and Sorcery.