Liberia’s elections, ritual killings and cannibalism
August 01, 2011
Liberia suffers from ritual killings during political campaigns. Experts say women and babies are at risk. Here a newborn baby is safe in a hospital, wrapped in traditional Liberian fabric on December 4, 2008.
Credit: Georges Gobet
MONROVIA, Liberia — The pregnant woman was found dead in the shallows of Lake Shepherd. The fetus had been removed.
A candidate for Liberia's Senate and a former county attorney are among those standing trial for the 2009 murder, the latest in a long history of ritual sacrifices performed for political power in Liberia.
In this case in southeastern Maryland County, prosecutors were tipped off by a witch doctor who provided a list of 18 people allegedly connected to the killing, including Fulton Yancy, the former county attorney, and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Special Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Dan Morias.
Vials of blood were discovered in Yancy's home. Nine were charged with murder but were released earlier this month following a Supreme Court ruling.
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Liberia will have general elections later this year and the titual killings tend to flare up during election season, according to Jerome Verdier, former chairman of Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
”Unfortunately it happens during elections time because people are competing for political power,they don’t know God and they believe that these supernatural powers will come to them once human blood is shed,” Verdier said.
Verdier said some of those who confessed at the TRC hearing gave graphic accounts of ritual killings they carried out.
“People went as far as eating their opponent’s body — when such person is killed in battle they cook their body to eat, believing that the spirit, the powerful spirit of that person, will come to them and by eating them, the person’s power is completely destroyed', so there can be no reemergence in that person’s family line or their ethnic line.”
A former warlord who calls himself General Butt Naked and who fought against former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, confessed in 2008 to taking part in human sacrifices that included the killing of a child and "plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat."
In 2005, the leader of Liberia's transitional government, Gyude Bryant, pledged to hang anyone found guilty of ritual killing.
MOAR:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-08-01/liberia-s-elections-ritual-killings-and-cannibalism
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Similarly, from article #2 poasted in notes the other day:
Former Satanist: “I Performed Satanic Rituals Inside Abortion Clinics”
…in satanism, killing something or the death of something is the most effective way of getting your spell accomplished. As far as trying to get satan’s approval, to give you something that you want, killing something is the best way to go. Killing something is the ultimate offering to satan, and if you can kill an unborn, that is his ultimate goal.
https://www.lepantoin.org/former-satanist-i-performed-satanic-rituals-inside-abortion-clinics/
(OR…or… you could just pray, HAVE FAITH and TRUST God will answer your prayer and if God doesn't answer it, it's because you didn't have faith. Period.)
"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it', and it will be yours." Mark 11:24
"And vwhatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” Matthew 21:22
"Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that athe Father may be glorified in the Son." John 14:13
"If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." John 15:7
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." John 16:23–24
They're so fucking stupid.