Village 'witches' beaten in India - [merged]

[khalidali7070]

Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state.
Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric.
The incident occurred on Sunday in a remote village in Deoghar district.
Correspondents say the abuse of women who are branded as witches is common, but rare footage of the incident has caused outrage across India.
Police went to Pattharghatia village after being informed about the incident by a group of villagers.
'Possessed'
They have lodged a case against 11 villagers, including six women. Four people have been arrested in connection with the incident.

The victims were taken to a playground where hundreds had assembled to watch
Murari Lal Meena
Deputy police inspector general
Armed police have since been deployed to the area.
"On Sunday morning the victims were taken to a playground where hundreds had assembled to watch the ghastly incident," deputy inspector general of police Murari Lal Meena told the BBC.
"No one in the mob came forward to rescue the victims as they were being stripped and beaten up," he said.
The victims are now under police protection.
Police say that people in Pattharghatia believe that certain women in their village are possessed by a "holy spirit" that can identify those who practise witchcraft.
"These women recently identified five women from the same village as being witches who practised witchcraft and brought miseries to the area," a police official said.
Soon, an unruly mob broke into their huts, dragged them out and started beating them up.
Footage of the incident has been aired on television channels in India prompting outrage.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, have been killed in India because their neighbours thought they were witches.
Experts say superstitious beliefs are behind some of these attacks, but there are occasions when people - especially widows - are targeted for their land and property.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8315980.stm



I dont even know what to say about the above.


And the local cleric he should be striped naked and made to sit of a plastic pole, and should be feed what every feces one can get their hands on. Where did we get these jahils from. No wonder we as Muslims are going through what is happening to us, it is because we have appointed the clerics who have this type of thinking and who them selves are not followers of in fact who don't even know any thing about true Islam.

[Khalil]

This is a common practice in many villagers throughout the world and is a huge problem in South Africa's villages.

See link below

http://www.rickross.com/reference/af...an_sects8.html

[kingusama92]

I would love to see these idiots paraded around naked eating Bull**** that seems to be coming out of their mouths right now.

[mindless slogging]

I don't even believe these are clerics. Rather they are just tribe leaders who are given a position of authority and people just assume it's religiously based.

Eating excrement? I wonder where he got that from?

[lil saeed anwar]

Originally Posted by kingusama92 I would love to see these idiots paraded around naked eating Bull**** that seems to be coming out of the mouth right now.

indeed

[Gabbar Singh]

Amazing that in this day and age people can still be so backward -

Village 'witches' beaten in India By Salman Ravi BBC News, Ranchi Footage of 'witches' being abused by a mob in India Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8315980.stm

[Xpakistani]

Five women were stripped and paraded naked in Deoghar district of Jharkhand after being charged of witchcraft, police said on Monday.

Five women, including three widows, were forcibly brought to a field Sunday in Patharghatia village in Deoghar, about 350 km from state capital Ranchi. They were stripped and paraded naked and two of them were forced to eat excreta, police said.

"Sushila Kumahrin, Sagiran Beebi, Hafijan Beebi, Sujan Beebi and Gulnar Beebi were tortured to accept that they were witches and practise black magic. The incident took place at the instruction of a witch doctor. The witch doctor said that these women were practising black magic and were causing problems in the village," a police officer said.

The women were rescued when local government officials and police reached the spot. However, the perpetrators managed to escape.

According to reports, hundreds of people witnessed the incident.

"We have lodged an FIR (First Information Report) against 11 people, including six women. We will soon arrest the perpetrators," the officer added.

Majority of perpetrators were Muslims and four of the five victims belonged to the same community.

In Jharkhand, women are subjected to different forms of torture after being branded witches. There are instances when women have been paraded naked, forced to eat human excreta and even killed.

According to official data, more than 700 people, majority of them women, were killed after being branded witches. The witch doctors manage to escape as people fear black magic if they are named.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Five-w...e1-466667.aspx

[mindless slogging]

I think this has been posted before.

[moumotta]

Again.

The same incident happened a week ago.

[OZGOD]

Why would you make someone eat excreta?

[tdigi]

There are retards everywhere and this is one example of it...

[Khalil]

Originally Posted by OZGOD Why would you make someone eat excreta?

Ask white South Africans. Recently white students at the University of the Free State forced black workers to drink their urine and mixed excreta in their food

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On the segregated campus of South Africa's University of the Free State this weekend, tensions were thunderously high as black students planned a mass protest for tomorrow against the white students who made a video humiliating their black cleaners.

The film has gone around the world on the internet and sent the country into shock. All the more so because the young students are products of post-apartheid South Africa with its rainbow nation aspirations. Black student leader Tom Thabane, 20, wants two white students expelled and their hostel, Reitz, to be closed. 'Reitz is like a cult. If you walk past there, they shout abuse and throw white napkins at you,' he said.

The two offending residents, Roelof Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe, 22-year-old agriculture students, are among four white men who filmed the mock freshman's initiation of five black cleaners. In one scene, a student is shown urinating into a bowl of soup before it is apparently served to the kneeling cleaners - four middle-aged women and a man - who are also seen being made to run a race, play rugby and down beer. The film ends with a caption in Afrikaans that reads: 'At the end of the day, this is what we really think of integration.'

'It wasn't real urine, honestly,' one white lad claimed. 'If you look closely at the video, you can see he has a little water bottle tucked under his T-shirt.'

Reitz hostel, a group of bungalows in the verdant campus of the university named after a premier of the Orange Free State, one of the early Boer republics, yesterday remained under police guard while groups of students - each racially distinct - went about their business. An elderly black car park attendant, who identified himself only as Michael, said: 'There is going to be fighting. The blacks are going to get their revenge for those ladies. We've had many race riots here, and now there will be more. The Free State is the mother of apartheid.'

But Reitz residence head Christo Dippenaar denied the 120-bed hostel was a hotbed of racism resisting the university's integration moves. 'If you are going to put white and black together, there will be tension. There has to be something to bind them and we believe the link is rugby. Reitz has been a finalist or winner of the National Residences Competition for the past 12 years. So we told the authorities that we want to select our black residents. They refused, though out of the eight black residents they sent us, four play rugby.'

'If any harm was done, we as a hostel are sorry. But the guys who made the video are my brothers - so I'm not going to say it was good or bad,' he said.

The university has advised Malherbe and Van der Merwe to stay away for the time being. They are to face a disciplinary council, though it is unclear when this will take place. The other two filmmakers, Daniel Grobler and Johnny Roberts, both 26, graduated last year.

Dippenaar, 37, said the video was made as part of last year's initiation events for first-year students. He explained: 'It was just a prank. Reitz has a strong tradition of initiation. The first year students have to make the tea and there's this thing we do where we pee in the teapot. So we have a lot of jokes around urine.

'We made two other films for culture day, do you want to see them?' A laptop is produced. One film begins with sound effects of a student masturbating in the lavatory, another with mock drug-taking. All participants are white. 'The black ladies are our friends. They had a good laugh at the film. They saw it in September and they worked here without saying anything until a few days ago when the university put them on leave.

'Most of the boys at Reitz are from farm areas. They have grown up with a black woman in the kitchen who is like a second mum. These ladies sort of take over that role when the guys come to university,' he said.

Lawyer Lesley Mokgoro said the workers had not been aware of what they were taking part in. 'They are very hurt,' he said.

Dippenaar claims the row has been seized on by politicians to distract the nation from its everyday woes, including electricity power cuts and divisions in the ruling ANC party. 'Why don't they sort out Zimbabwe instead?' he asked. 'This reminds me of 1994 and before, when we, the Afrikaaners, were blamed for everything by the whole world.'

Two black residents arrive but do not wish to give their names. Medical student Wim Hiddema, 22, said: 'They have a right not to talk. They will be in danger from other blacks if they say anything.' He claims the film was passed to the media by militant members of the South African Students' Congress (Sasco). Sasco denies the claim.

'We are not against whites. We are against racism,' said Thabane. 'We are living in modern South Africa. We come from multiracial schools. The time has come for us not to tolerate segregation.'

In 2007 the university senate finally passed a motion to integrate hostels. A 70-30 per cent split has been reached in female hostels, but in traditionally white male hostels, fewer than 15 per cent are black. No white students this year took up accommodation in black hostels, opting to find digs off campus.

[cricket_fever]

Originally Posted by Khalil Ask white South Africans. Recently white students at the University of the Free State forced black workers to drink their urine and mixed excreta in their food --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the segregated campus of South Africa's University of the Free State this weekend, tensions were thunderously high as black students planned a mass protest for tomorrow against the white students who made a video humiliating their black cleaners. The film has gone around the world on the internet and sent the country into shock. All the more so because the young students are products of post-apartheid South Africa with its rainbow nation aspirations. Black student leader Tom Thabane, 20, wants two white students expelled and their hostel, Reitz, to be closed. 'Reitz is like a cult. If you walk past there, they shout abuse and throw white napkins at you,' he said. The two offending residents, Roelof Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe, 22-year-old agriculture students, are among four white men who filmed the mock freshman's initiation of five black cleaners. In one scene, a student is shown urinating into a bowl of soup before it is apparently served to the kneeling cleaners - four middle-aged women and a man - who are also seen being made to run a race, play rugby and down beer. The film ends with a caption in Afrikaans that reads: 'At the end of the day, this is what we really think of integration.' 'It wasn't real urine, honestly,' one white lad claimed. 'If you look closely at the video, you can see he has a little water bottle tucked under his T-shirt.' Reitz hostel, a group of bungalows in the verdant campus of the university named after a premier of the Orange Free State, one of the early Boer republics, yesterday remained under police guard while groups of students - each racially distinct - went about their business. An elderly black car park attendant, who identified himself only as Michael, said: 'There is going to be fighting. The blacks are going to get their revenge for those ladies. We've had many race riots here, and now there will be more. The Free State is the mother of apartheid.' But Reitz residence head Christo Dippenaar denied the 120-bed hostel was a hotbed of racism resisting the university's integration moves. 'If you are going to put white and black together, there will be tension. There has to be something to bind them and we believe the link is rugby. Reitz has been a finalist or winner of the National Residences Competition for the past 12 years. So we told the authorities that we want to select our black residents. They refused, though out of the eight black residents they sent us, four play rugby.' 'If any harm was done, we as a hostel are sorry. But the guys who made the video are my brothers - so I'm not going to say it was good or bad,' he said. The university has advised Malherbe and Van der Merwe to stay away for the time being. They are to face a disciplinary council, though it is unclear when this will take place. The other two filmmakers, Daniel Grobler and Johnny Roberts, both 26, graduated last year. Dippenaar, 37, said the video was made as part of last year's initiation events for first-year students. He explained: 'It was just a prank. Reitz has a strong tradition of initiation. The first year students have to make the tea and there's this thing we do where we pee in the teapot. So we have a lot of jokes around urine. 'We made two other films for culture day, do you want to see them?' A laptop is produced. One film begins with sound effects of a student masturbating in the lavatory, another with mock drug-taking. All participants are white. 'The black ladies are our friends. They had a good laugh at the film. They saw it in September and they worked here without saying anything until a few days ago when the university put them on leave. 'Most of the boys at Reitz are from farm areas. They have grown up with a black woman in the kitchen who is like a second mum. These ladies sort of take over that role when the guys come to university,' he said. Lawyer Lesley Mokgoro said the workers had not been aware of what they were taking part in. 'They are very hurt,' he said. Dippenaar claims the row has been seized on by politicians to distract the nation from its everyday woes, including electricity power cuts and divisions in the ruling ANC party. 'Why don't they sort out Zimbabwe instead?' he asked. 'This reminds me of 1994 and before, when we, the Afrikaaners, were blamed for everything by the whole world.' Two black residents arrive but do not wish to give their names. Medical student Wim Hiddema, 22, said: 'They have a right not to talk. They will be in danger from other blacks if they say anything.' He claims the film was passed to the media by militant members of the South African Students' Congress (Sasco). Sasco denies the claim. 'We are not against whites. We are against racism,' said Thabane. 'We are living in modern South Africa. We come from multiracial schools. The time has come for us not to tolerate segregation.' In 2007 the university senate finally passed a motion to integrate hostels. A 70-30 per cent split has been reached in female hostels, but in traditionally white male hostels, fewer than 15 per cent are black. No white students this year took up accommodation in black hostels, opting to find digs off campus.

it is sad 2 hear things lyk this r still happening ryt here in SA.....i mean apartheid his is history and 4 ppl 2 still behave lyk that is very shameful....by the way my dad was telling me that when he was younger there was an india primeminister or something like that his surname was "desai" and he used to drink his own urine....and from that day some kids started calling urine "desai cola"! i dont know whether 2 believe that!

[tdigi]

Originally Posted by cricket_fever it is sad 2 hear things lyk this r still happening ryt here in SA.....i mean apartheid his is history and 4 ppl 2 still behave lyk that is very shameful....by the way my dad was telling me that when he was younger there was an india primeminister or something like that his surname was "desai" and he used to drink his own urine....and from that day some kids started calling urine "desai cola"! i dont know whether 2 believe that!

It's true. Urine is good for the heart. One peg a day keeps the doctor away.
lol

[Paradox]

Originally Posted by Khalil The two offending residents, Roelof Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe,

Okay - this is off-topic, but if you take the first name of the first guy, and the surname of the second guy, you get Roelof van der Merwe

Sorry, that was just too tempting.