2.5 million meticais for albino organs

In Nampula, the abduction of people with lack of pigmentation in the skin dates back to the end of 2014. From December to this part, about a hundred people with albinism was the victim. Some individuals were killed and others are reported missing. 

In connection with these cases, 42 individuals are detained. African healers even pay 75,000 US dollars for a full set of organs of an albino to use them in spells they believe bring good luck, love and wealth. Because of this "game", albinos living in panic in this region of the country. In March this year the United Nations (UN) warned of the attack increased against people with albinism in countries around the southern and eastern Africa because of impending elections in several countries where politicians resort to witchcraft rituals to enhance their chances of coming to power. To learn this harsh reality that continues to sow mourning in Mozambican families,Verdade interviewed relatives of the victims. Of our respondents, we learned that the crime resurgence is due to the ineffectiveness of the police.

The most recent cases occurred in Namina, Larde and Malena in the months of September and October, where a young man disappeared in strange circumstances, and others were killed, including Alfane Anthony and Lydia Carlitos.Segundo Mauritius Carlitos Pedro, brother of Lydia Pedro leaving two children under six and seven years old, this was abducted at his home in the administrative post of Muralelo, Malema district, the dead of night. The victim was taken to a forest, near a cemetery, where he would be murdered. Evildoers drew some body parts cut off from the gut, breasts, teeth, hair, among others. The murderers took advantage of Lydia's husband's absence to kidnap la.Naquele day, according to Peter, his brother did not sleep in your house, but rule out the possibility of this being complicit in the murder of her sister. Lydia was 25 years old and lived in recent days in pânico.Importa noted that our interlocutor and his brother Ricardo Carlitos Pedro are also albinos, and with the kidnapping and death of his sister, they feel threatened. At this time, those citizens are in the city of Nampula.Pedro said the case is being dealt with by the police authorities of Malema, but from that day to this part there has been no development.

In the case of Alfane Antonio, a nurse who was kidnapped and dismembered in Larde, on the 17th September,@Verdade learned that six individuals, one being relative of the victim, detained and a criminal case is following the procedures legal in the morning Angoche.Pela district on 17 December 2014, a young man with albinism, identified by Aid Caesar Augustus, 21 years of age (until that date), disappeared after receiving the invitation of individuals still at large for sightseeing. The fact took place in Mutauanha neighborhood in the city of Nampula, and the meeting place between the victim and the alleged wrongdoers was in Labour Avenue, specifically at the gas station in the area of ​​Faina.Segundo Eduardo Caesar Augustus, the victim's father, the alleged kidnappers had asked his son with promises to employ it in the factory Beers of Mozambique (CDM), which auferiria 15,000 meticais victim's father mensais.O is located outside the city when it was harvested by surprise with the news and tried to report the case in the 1st Squadron, where it was opened a criminal case under number 2857 / PIC / 2014.Augusto said a day after the disappearance of Aid a young man named Elias Martins would have come to your house looking for her son in order to offer you a job. This situation will have drawn the attention of the family, as this individual presented a salary proposal equal to what motivated the disappearance of the victim.

Eduardo Augusto denounced the individual to the police who would stop him. The process for the interrogation of the accused would have been sent to the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC) on 5 February 2015, and was heard on 12 February. The next day (13), the investigating judge initiating the proceedings exarou an order acting that kept the preventive arrest of Elias Martins, but filed the processo.Segundo our interviewee since that day nothing happened. But to his astonishment learned of the release of the accused, allegedly because a lawyer would have required the freedom of it for lack of evidence of their involvement in the abduction of aid Augustus. Elias Martins was released on March 3, becoming fulfill an order recorded by the judge, on 27 February, and only the process was returned to the PIC on 18 March. The accused was not, according to the victim's father, questioned by the police. "The investigating judge is complicit in the abduction of my son. First he exarou an order that kept the remand of the accused, but shelved the process. Why? "Asked Augustus, who added:" He revoked their first order two weeks later, for alleged intervention of a lawyer. He shelved the case because he knew that a lawyer would appear to require the freedom of the accused ".Our interlocutor also said that Elias Martins can not afford to enable it to be a lawyer, then you believe that the mastermind of the kidnapping of his son was who hired the services that profissional.Além addition, our source revealed that already denounced the mastermind of the crime to the police, but they proved to be indifferent. Eduardo Augusto said he has been exposing its concern to the Provincial Prosecutor for months. Dissatisfied with the way you are being treated the case, the citizen made a presentation to the President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, which was received on 21 August of the current year, but to date has not acusado.É Aid to point out that Augusto is not / was the only son of Eduardo Augusto with albinism.

Abiazer and Pedro Augusto César live in terror because of the wave of kidnappings in Nampula. Abiazer Augusto is 29 years old, is married, but he was forced to change his residence, because I found I was being "hunted" in the area where he lived in the neighborhood of Muatala.O case of Augusto Aid is not the only the archives of the police and judicial authorities in Nampula. Diamantino Antonio Simila is a young man who was born with albinism and therefore suffered an attempted kidnapping perpetrated by a friend of his sister, who only identified by name Ramadane last month of Janeiro.Segundo Simila, everything would have started when the his cellphone rang. Was the call Ramadane, worker KENMARE Larde in which he recommended that join documents to qualify for a job vacancy in Topuito. The alleged infringer would have obtained the contact number by Sister vítima.Dias later Simila Ramadane received a call requesting that he would have with this immediately. The meeting was scheduled for nearby Secondary School Namicopo, Carrupeia neighborhood. Our interlocutor was done to the place where he was asked by Ramadane to go with him to the Nampula Central Hospital, allegedly to donate blood to an albino child who was low and would receive 20,000 meticais.O individual fazia- be transported in a car in the company of two other people who, for Simila, were strange. With the support of popular Simila declined the invitation, despite Ramadane has increased the value for 25,000 meticais. Arrived home, he told his mother what was happening, they tried to report the case to Polícia.Dias later, still in January, Simila took the case to the Provincial Prosecutor, where the attendance of Ramadane would be required, but in absence of the complainant. Simila said he was told the Prosecutor that the offender confessed that he intended to smuggle the jovem.O that worries Simila is that, ware about 10 months, the case has not been any development. "The case is before the Court, but has not yet been called to be heard and when I go there tell me to wait," he lamented.

@VERDADE talked to a young, 27-year-old, who asked not to be identified. She was repeatedly the victim of an attempted kidnapping. The last time this happened was in Daniel Napatima Street, where she was approached by three individuals who were carrying a citizen Corola.A Toyota brand vehicle was in his brother's company and sister, who also were in a car. When she and her sister got out of the vehicle in order to enter the PEP store, he was taken by two individuals who dropped only thanks to the prompt intervention of his irmão.Nos recent days, it has received several messages of threatening. The case is, according to our interviewee, the police authorities. Some albinos have given up school at the risk of being abducted. Sania Muaine, 19 years old, is an example of that. Student who attends Grade 9 Secondary School Namicopo, she was forced to abandon his studies for four months.

Cristóvão Mário Mondlane, Nampula provincial prosecutor, said the wave of kidnappings for people with albinism concerned judicial authorities in the province, hence they were driven mechanisms in order to combat this mal.Questionado on handling cases-crimes received at your institution, Mondlane said that none of the professionals should be appointed as conniving. The delay is due to the procedures that must be followed. Furthermore, the accused never reveal their mandantes.A our source said that until that moment that gave the interview toVerdade, were arrested 42 individuals, two of which would be returned to freedom because it was proven that they were not involved in crime . In connection with this type of crime, the prosecution would have instructed 22 criminal cases, with the first case being tried took place last Wednesday (14), but had desfecho.Num another development, Mondlane said the alleged criminal "hunt" people with albinism and, after murdering them, seeking customers; so when are challenged can not tell who the principals, saying that "I personally making me spend per customer was already owns eight individuals who came here looking for a buyer" .The Albinism is a congenital disorder characterized the absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to a deficiency in the production of melanin in the body. In some cases, the disorder also causes vision problems. "People with albinism are among the most vulnerable in southern and eastern Africa," said Ikponwosa Ero first specialist human rights in UN albinism in a statement. "Today, the misfortune of them have been compounded by the constant fear of attacks by others - including family members -. who value the parts of their bodies more than their lives "Healers Africans pay as much as 75,000 US dollars (about 2 5 million meticais) for a complete set of organs of an albino, according to a report by the Red Cross, to use them in spells they believe bring good luck, love and wealth.