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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Analysts told Lusa on Wednesday that the strength of myths and the lack of legal culture perpetuate crimes for the extraction of human organs in Mozambique, mainly in rural areas and among the poorest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are crimes that are associated with the myths and beliefs that being treated with human organs can provide wealth and well-being,\u201d stressed Benilde Nhalivilo, executive director of the Civil Society Forum for Children\u2019s Rights (ROSC), a Mozambican NGO, regarding \u201cheinous crimes\u201d that mainly target children.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a father beheaded his daughter to sell her head for one million meticais (14,000 euros), in Gil\u00e9 district, Zamb\u00e9zia province, central Mozambique.<\/p>\n

The father and another man are under arrest for alleged involvement in the killing.<\/p>\n

In central and northern Mozambique there have been frequent cases of murder of children, mainly albinos, for the extraction of human organs which are then sold for ritual purposes.<\/p>\n

Poverty and illiteracy make families in rural areas vulnerable to grooming, says Benilde.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn rural areas of Mozambique, there is a prevalent index of legal illiteracy that makes people unaware that the practice of this type of crime carries serious criminal consequences,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n

She noted that Mozambican laws severely condemn crimes against life and physical integrity, but fail in their preventive function, because they are unknown.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation and awareness are fundamental so that communities know that nobody gets rich from supposedly being treated with human body parts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Feroza Zacarias, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Mozambique Bar Association (OAM), pointed to poverty and illiteracy as some of the causes of the prevalence of barbaric crimes in rural areas, including against children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are harmful cultural beliefs that still have a lot of force and to which people adhere because they believe they can solve problems such as poverty, unemployment, illness and death,\u201d said Zacarias.<\/p>\n

Communities must be educated on respect for human rights and on the legal consequences of engaging in crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not required that everyone be a jurist, but the teaching of human rights protection should begin in primary school, so that the child of today is not the monster of tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n

C\u00e9lia Claudina, executive director of the Network of Communicators Friends of the Child (Recac), a Mozambican NGO, defended greater action among southern African states, noting that crimes for the extraction of human organs have a cross-border dimension.<\/p>\n

\u201d It is normal that one part of the crime chain is in Mozambique and the other is in Malawi or Tanzania and this connection requires a coordinated fight of the jurisdictions of all neighbouring countries\u201d.<\/p>\n

The activist also advocated a greater awareness of the communities about the macabre nature of crimes against life and physical integrity, noting that there is a lack of knowledge about the legal consequences of such crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn many cases, one notes the perplexity of the perpetrators of these crimes, because there are family members, including parents, who think that they can do whatever they want with the lives of their children\u201d, she concluded.<\/p>\n

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