Posted on 05/15/2018 3:43:13 PM PDT by BBell
Albino five-year-old girl is snatched in front of her mother and found decapitated after ritual murder for her 'magical' body parts in Mali
Armed men abducted Djeneba Diarra from her family home in Fana village, Mali
Her mother pursued kidnappers but turned back to protect second alblino child
Police launched a hunt and later found the five-year-old's decapitated body
Killing was feared to be part of a ritual murder for supposedly magic body parts
A five-year-old albino girl has been snatched and beheaded after a ritual murder for her body parts, which are deemed magical in Mali.
Armed men abducted Djeneba Diarra from her family's home in Fana village, 78 miles north of Mali's capital, Bamako, as the child.
Police said she was sleeping in the courtyard with her mother and her sister when kidnappers struck.
The girl's mother at first tried to pursue the kidnappers, who scaled a wall with her child, but then turned back to protect her second daughter, also an albino.
'We searched for the little girl everywhere. We found her body beside a mosque, but she had no head,' said a village teacher, Oumar Diakite.
Blaming a lack of security for the killing, angry local residents on Sunday partially burned down the paramilitary police headquarters in Fana, according to several witnesses.
'We demand justice. Her head was taken. This is a ritual crime,' activist Mamadou Sissoko told AFP after going to the scene.
Sissoko, the general secretary of the Federation of Associations of Persons with Albinism in West Africa (FAPAO), pointed out the link between crimes against albinos and political events, ahead of Mali's presidential election on July 29.
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Dreadful. RIP.
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