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PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:01 am    Post subject: Witch Hunt Reply with quote
I thought the burning times were a dark part in history!!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090...-religion-witchcraft-011ccfa.html
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
By the Gods! I had hoped that this sort of barbarity was firmly in the past

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But increasingly children suspected of witchcraft -- usually on the basis of vague accusations -- were being killed because their parents feared they would have to take them back if the authorities identified them.

Ulrich Garms from the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the seminar that there were no reliable statistics on how many women and child "witches" were killed annually around the globe.

Other U.N. officials tracking the problem said deaths ran into at least tens of thousands, and beatings, deprivation of property and banishment and isolation from community life meant victims of "witch frenzy" ran into millions.

I'm just sickened and appalled, I really am  
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That is just sickening...how ignorant does the world need to be?


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