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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Last month, the Likhoele Ha-Sebusi community in Mafeteng woke up to a gruesome scene of two men who had been brutally murdered and had their private parts hacked off.
\nThe body parts were nowhere to be seen.
\nThese men were aged between 23 and 32 years. The deceased were from the Likhoele area in Mafeteng.
\nThe police immediately launched investigations into the dreadful incident. The investigations have since led to the arrest of two suspects \u2013 who are believed to have been the masterminds behind the ritual murder.
\nFour other men were later arrested in connection with the murder. The four suspects are Tankiso Masupha, 21, Mpho Masupha, Neo Sebusi, 24 and Thato Matlakala, 29. They were remanded in custody when they appeared in court.
\nThey are due to appear in the Mafeteng magistrates\u2019 court next Tuesday.
\nPolice spokesperson Senior Superintendent Mpiti Mopeli said two suspects were from Ha-Qobete, a kilometre away from where the motionless bodies of the two men were found lying in a shallow ditch.
\nBut the suspects were picked up by the police in Thaba-Bosiu where they were hiding.
\nSSP Mopeli said the suspects fled the scene upon hearing a tip-off that the police were after them.
\nHe said the suspects are biological brothers aged 17 and 21 years old respectively.
\nHe said the suspects told them that they gave the body parts to a traditional doctor aged 29 who is from the village of Ha-Qobete.
\nSSP Mopeli said the suspects said they also handed over a pistol they used to kill the men to the said traditional doctor.
\nThe traditional doctor was also arrested by the police.
\n\u201cThe man was found in possession of some body parts and a pistol,\u201d SSP Mopeli said.
\nAnd those body parts were found tied on a tree on the mountain of Maboloka in the district.
\nThe traditional doctor had hidden them there.
\nFurther police investigations revealed that the sangoma was going to mix the parts with some herbs.
\nIn particular, he was in need of a white man\u2019s private parts, not the ones for a Mosotho man to make a stronger mixture of herbs.
\nBecause the 21-year-old suspect is an illegal miner in South Africa, the sangoma had asked him to get him the private parts of the white-man because he was working close to white men.
\nSSP Mopeli said the suspects told them that they took advantage of the two men because they had a chance to rip off their parts easily.
\nWhile still on the outlook for the parts of the white man, they could at least hand over something to the sangoma.
\nPolice investigations revealed that previously, the deal was that the suspects would be given M15 000 for the parts.
\nWhen the ritual murderers brought the parts of the Basotho men, the price dropped to M10 000.
\nThe chairman of Lesotho Traditional Doctors, Malefetsane Liau, said the incident left them shocked.
\nHe said they are yet to find out if the traditional healer is in their books.
\n\u201cWe are going to delete his name from our books if he is a registered traditional doctor,\u201d Liau said.
\n\u201cWe do not need these calibres in our midst,\u201d he said.
\nRitual murders have been part of Basotho\u2019s harrowing history and not enough attention has been directed to the crime, according to some researchers.
\nIt only captures the national attention when prominent people are involved.
\nAs early as the 1940s, Basotho were involved in ritual murders. Two Basotho chiefs were hanged on August 3, 1949 after they were convicted for ritual murders.
\nThe two chiefs were hanged in Maseru, the capital of the then British colony of Basutoland, now called Lesotho.
\nOne was Bereng Griffith Lerotholi, the Principal Chief of the Phamong ward in Mohale\u2019s Hoek District in the south of the country.
\nThe other chief hanged was Gabasheane Masupha, the Principal Chief of \u2019Mamathe\u2019s ward in the Berea District to the north-east of Maseru.
\nThe crime for which Bereng and Gabasheane were hanged for was murder, but it was not murder of the ordinary kind.
\nAt first it was known as ritual murder; later, more appropriately, as medicine or liretlo murder.
\nParts of the victim\u2019s body, liretlo, were cut away, usually while he or she was still alive, for the purpose of making medicines which, it was believed, would strengthen those who made use of them.
\nIn this case, according to the prosecution, the two chiefs had enlisted the help of at least a dozen of their subjects to kill a man called \u2019Meleke Ntai.
\nIf they had been acquitted they would have had to stand trial for an earlier murder, committed in 1946.
\nThe victim then was a man called Paramente, who was caught at night as he came out of his lover\u2019s hut.
\nThe cases of Chiefs Bereng and Gabashane drew the attention of the world to Basutoland, not only because the murders were so gruesome, but because they involved two of the highest chiefs in the land and because they seemed to be part of a rising tide of murder that was threatening to engulf the whole country.
\nThere had been occasional reports of medicine murders since 1895, but until the (mid-20th century) they had been too few to disturb the colonial authorities.
\nFrom two in 1941, however, the number of reported murders had risen to 20 in 1948, the year in which Bereng and Gabashane allegedly carried out the second of their murders, and the numbers of instigators and accomplices involved amounted to several hundreds.
\nThe above historical piece is from the Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis by Colin Murray and Peter Sanders.
\nBut medicine murders in Lesotho have not stopped.
\nIsaac Rasebate Mokotso, a researcher at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), wrote about seven years ago that there was an urgent need to pay attention to these murders.
\nEven though it seems there has been a decline in the number of witch killings and ritual murders from different sectors of Basotho society, these phenomena has recently reemerged and it is worrying and requires an immediate response, Mokotso said.
\nIn November 2019 the High Court heard a case in which one Lebohang Pitso of Ha \u2019Matsa in Qacha\u2019s Nek was facing two counts of murder.
\nPitso was alleged to have murdered a 90-year-old \u2019Mamoloko Seeiso and her seven-year-old grandson.
\nTestifying in court, Sergeant Chale Moloinyana of Sekake Police said they first got a report from the Chief of Ha \u2019Matsa that two people had been murdered in the village.
\nAfter they arrived at the scene, Moloinyana said the police found two bodies lying in a pool of blood.
\nHe said they discovered that their throats were slit and part of Seeiso\u2019s scalp had been peeled off.
\nInvestigations led to the arrest of Pitso by the Semonkong police.
\nPitso led the police to Carltonville at an informal settlement called Khutsong in South Africa.
\nOn the roof of the shack he claimed was his home, Pitso pointed the police to a scalp pinned to a knife.
\nHe said the scalp belonged to Seeiso.
\nHe allegedly confessed that the particular knife together with one that was on the table was used to slaughter the old woman and her grandson.
\nLast year double ritual murderer Lehlohonolo Scott was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole while his sickly mother, \u2019Malehlohonolo, was given a suspended ten-year sentence.
\n\u2019Malehlohonolo has since died due to her illness.
\nHigh Court judge Justice Teboho Moiloa found them guilty of murdering fellow Koalabata residents, Moholobela Seetsa, 13, and Kamohelo Mohata, 19, in January and June 2012 respectively.
\nMokotso, in a paper titled \u2018Introducing Basotho Traditional Religion in Lesotho Schools,\u2019 says the origin of ritual murder or medicine murder in Lesotho is not known.
\nMokotso says there are two theories of the origin of ritual murder (Liretlo in Sesotho) in Lesotho.
\nOne theory is that liretlo is not indigenous to Basotho culture but had been imported from the Zulu culture.
\nProtective medicine (Lenaka) which liretlo is mainly for, had already been in use in Basotho culture, but it was made up of animal parts instead of human parts.
\nThe other theory is that liretlo is as ancient as the Basotho nation, to the extent that it is not possible to trace its origins.
\nHowever, Mokotso says it has been noted that Moshoeshoe had lenaka with human parts ingredients even though those parts were obtained from corpses of enemies killed in wars.
\nHe says occurrences of liretlo were recorded in the early colonial period in 1895 in which about six cases were reported.
\nIn a 1992 study, he says, liretlo became a Lesotho \u2018epidemic\u2019 and reached a peak in the years between 1940 and 1955 in which over 120 cases were reported during this period.
\nThe Lesotho police have not, until now, classified murder crimes on whether they are medicine murders, gang-influenced, or witch-hunt triggered.
\nThe police just record it as murder and start investigating a murder case.
\nLack of the classification of murders explains why the Bureau of Statistics does not have any information on how and why people are murdered; it just records the number of homicides.
\nThis also explains why the Lesotho parliament has not come up with a law that guides the nation on how to deal with these kind of murders.
\nEarlier this year, the chairman of the social cluster in parliament Fako Moshoeshoe told thepost that for them to make laws they have to be informed by stakeholders about what is happening on the ground.<\/p>\n

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