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uzywanie skor na abazury zaniklo, ale uzywa sie je do praktyk czarnej magii
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>> Last Updated: Friday, 4 July, 2003, 16:49 GMT 17:49 UK
Tanzania fights human skinning
Human skin is used for witchcraft at a price of up to $9 600
Exhibits of skin are part of Tanzania's campaign to discourage the trade in
human skin at an international business fair in the capital.
Vistors to the the week-long fair in Dar es Salaam will see a rather
gruesome exhibit of human body parts in an effort to raise awareness about
the underground trade in human skin which has hit southern Tanzania over the
past two years.
The head of the forensic science division in the chief chemist's office,
which is exhibiting the parts, Gloria Machube, told the BBC's Focus on
Africa programme that the human skin is used in witchcraft.
According to police the skins are in huge demand outside Tanzania.
People are skinned and the skin is used for their rituals
Gloria Machube
Head of forensic science
They are transported to Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa and the
Democratic Republic of Congo before reaching their final destination in West
Africa.
"People are skinned and the skin is used for their rituals. But fortunately
they are caught by the police," Ms Machube said.
Murder charges
In 2001 police broke a skin-smuggling ring and 13 people were charged with
murder.
A total of six young people are thought to have been killed and skinned in
the Mbeya region of south-western Tanzania.
Ezekiah Swila was 13-years-old when his body was found skinned at Kisinga
village.
Three more cases followed in Ileje and Mbozi, both districts in Mbeya, near
the Zambian border.
The victims were identified through their DNA.
Ms Machube said that the human skins, skulls and limbs at the trade fair are
samples from the police forensic department, and that they are used to let
people know that the force now has the technology to
scientifically "identify the victims' profiles".
"This is also to educate people that they do not have to to use human skin
to become rich," she said.
The prices of the human skins range from $2,400 to $9,600, depending on the
age of the victim, police say.
