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04 Feb 2018, 8:31 am

The United Nations recently held its first expert workshop on witchcraft. In 2018, witchcraft is still a popular accusation levelled at people who "don't fit in", particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and among African diaspora communities. Thought of as either witches or bewitched, many of these children and adults are more likely on the autistic spectrum.

http://www.afrik-news.com/article17924.html

https://www.youshareproject.com/absence-autism-africa/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar ... hild-abuse



rowan_nichol
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12 Feb 2018, 3:05 pm

I had sometimes wondered when the news reported a murdered child's body being found and the child was from one of those backgrounds if the poor child was autistic and had been murdered by his family or community in the ignorant superstition that the child was a witch or was "Possessed".



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13 Feb 2018, 8:16 pm

They also murder albino children in some parts of Africa and use their bodies for magical purposes.


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