Elderly victims of Kenya witchhunts–where is the UN??
Via the BBC:
Villagers, many straight from their farms, and armed withmachetes, sticks and axes, are shouting and crowding round in a biggroup in Kenya’s fertile Kisii district. I can’t see clearly what is going on, but heavy smoke is rising from the ground and a horrible stench fills the air. More people are streaming up the hill, some of them with firewood and maize stalks. Suddenlyan old woman breaks from the crowd, screaming for mercy. Three or fourpeople go after her, beat her and drag her back, pushing her onto -what I can now see – is a raging fire.
Iwas witnessing a horrific practice which appears to be on the increasein Kenya – the lynching of people accused of being witches. I personally saw the burning alive of five elderly men and women in Itii village.
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  They point at me saying – that is a son of the witch  Joseph Ondieki
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I had been visiting relatives in a nearby town, when I heard whatwas happening. I dashed to the scene, accompanied by a village elder. He reacted as if what we were watching was quite normal, which was shocking for me.