Community police officers in Swaziland / Eswatini tortured
a ‘mentally challenged’ man by setting his genitals on fire and beating him
with iron rods to make him confess to committing ritual murders, a newspaper reported.
It happened at Ngogola, a remote area of Siphofaneni,
the Observer on Saturday newspaper in
Swaziland reported (23 June 2018). It said the man was left for dead at the
gate of his homestead.
It reported, ‘The mentally challenged suspect was
subjected to their unorthodox torture routines to force him to confess, where
the suspect was made to sit on a thorny aloe tree, beaten with all sorts of
iron rods and [they] set fire to his genitals to force him to confess to be
behind the ritual killings in the area.’
It added, ‘The tortured suspect is reported to have been
beaten to a pulp by the community police before he was made to confess to be
behind the killings.’ The regular police have reportedly taken the suspect into
care.
The media in Swaziland have been publishing lurid
reports from across the kingdom of children being abducted to be ritually
murdered so their body parts can be used in making muti potions that are said
to bring luck. It is reported that there has been an increase in ritual
killings ahead of a national election due in September 2018. Little hard
evidence has been reported that the killings have actually taken place.
See also
RITUAL
KILLINGS LINKED TO ELECTION
SWAZILAND IN FEAR OF WITCHES
POLICE
BEAT MAN CLOSE TO DEATH
https://swazimedia.blogspot.com/2018/06/police-beat-man-close-to-death.html
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