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Canibalism in Liberia or when human rights disappear.

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Canibalism in Liberia or when human rights disappear.

A few days ago, I found by chance about new cases of cannibalism in the area of ​​Liberia. They seem, apparently, many testimonies of people who have found empty bodies, thus recalling the atrocious massacres that occurred in the 90s in those lands.

He talks about a black market of images of Gore Liberian In the Dark Web. Without censorship, images of ritual cannibalism, of the resurgence of the Men heart, and many more atrocities.

In that area of ​​Africa, human rights have never been respected. People who live there simply have.

During the Civil War of Liberia, between 1989 and 2003, just about 22 years ago, Christians were generally crucified on roads, children and adults were mutilated and women and girls were systematically violated. And so for many years cannibalism was a very common practice to generate terror in the different tribal societies of the area. There were judgments where it was clearly stated that many politicians used soldiers trained to commit atrocities. And the most frightening, today, it seems that certain practices continue to exist, at least this is stated by the chronicle of journalists on August 10, 2025: … In the mid -31 of December 31, 2024, another shocking event again shake Lofa’s county, when the family of a five -year -old boy denounced his disappearance in a village in the District of Salayea. After days of distressing search, the little one appeared dead on the mountain. His little body presented frightful mutilations and indications that had been removed organs in what could only be interpreted as a macabre ritual.

Of course, the Liberian police investigated him without being able to clarify absolutely anything. In fact, the Local Police spoke: … After inspecting the scene of atrocious act of strangers. For the neighbors, there were no doubts: another ritual murder. The cruelty inflicted on the child suggested that he had been torn to use his parts in some witchcraft ritual.

In our organized western world we have not just felt comfortable with this type of news. It fights a lot against human rights in the official agency, or there is talk of it in conferences Ae meals of five hundred dollars the covered. There are thousands of people who seem to be permanently fighting this type of scourge, but in the usual places, the same stories are still giving before, only that covered with other rags.

If a child dies dismembered somewhere in the known world, see France, the United States, Belgium, Italy, Germany, etc., the media would bombard us with endless images of the place and with a series of headlines given by experts in the field. When the same thing happens in places like Liberia and others, who informs us.

In that area of ​​the planet Earth that does not care to anyone, they continue to remember, especially in the families where any of its members was mutilated, the civil wars of the 90s, as I mentioned before. In both Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone, since that decade, fear was established in the population, perhaps because it has been always known that, although some war lords were accused, among other things of symbolic or ritual cannibalism to terrorize the population, many of its soldiers, including children, were amnestized due to their age. They tried to educate those who participated in those killings, but, despite the good news that organizations dedicated to that topic show us, reality is much more atrocious about how much they tell us. To the point that the Liberian Interior Ministry itself ordered the traditional bosses of many tribes that did not allow them to cease the administration of a concoction called Sassy Wood and to make judgments to people accused of witchcraft, who through ordal evidence were condemned or saved, according to a criterion left to the random of divinity.

These tests (ordalies) were used in the Middle Ages, where physical tests were practiced by fire or water so that it was divinity who determined innocence or guilt. In general, 100% of the people to whom such exculpatory practices were guilty, thus demonstrating the good judgment of the sorcerers who induced them or the priests of the Holy Office that applied them. These practices continue to be given in Liberia and other Africa countries within tribal environments.

In the West, when we talk about these issues of a ritual nature we always look out to the “blessed field of ignorance”, without daring to seriously raise that there are failed states, lacking the slightest respect for human life and where we continue to allow, with our passivity that atrocious practices are committed such as those that are still committed today.

Literature:
El Mundo Diario (Spain). August 10, 2025.

Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com