the ROL has a special place for children: it brutalizes them. as it did to the children of native americans and aborigines, by taking them from their parents and bringing them up to have themselves and to be willing slaves to the whites.
in this context, i am reminded of uncle nehru's mythical love for children. the blighter actually hated children. a wag claimed that 'childrens day' is celebrated on his birthday because he had kinda lost count of the chillun he had fathered.
From: Sushama
Evangelical pastors are helping to create a terrible new campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the preachers make money out of the fear of their parents and their communities.
The rainy season is over and the Niger Delta is lush and humid. This southern edge of West Africa, where Nigeria's wealth pumps out of oil and gas fields to bypass millions of its poorest people, is a restless place. In the small delta state of Akwa Ibom, the tension and the poverty has delivered an opportunity for a new and terrible phenomenon that is leading to the abuse and the murder of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children. And it is being done in the name of Christianity.
Almost everyone goes to church here. Driving through the town of Esit Eket, the rust-streaked signs, tarpaulins hung between trees and posters on boulders, advertise a church for every third or fourth house along the road. Such names as New Testament Assembly, Church of God Mission, Mount Zion Gospel, Glory of God, Brotherhood of the Cross, Redeemed, Apostalistic. Behind the smartly painted doors pastors make a living by 'deliverances' - exorcisms - for people beset by witchcraft, something seen to cause anything from divorce, disease, accidents or job losses. With so many churches it's a competitive market, but by local standards a lucrative one.
For the rest
· Watch the video: Child witches in Africa
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2224553,00.html
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