Want superpowers? Sodomize a pygmy
Filed under: Congo
Topics covered : Forteana, Sexual Assault, Weirdness
My girlfriend and I have a new puppy. She’s four-months-old, which means her teeth are falling out. Because I work at home, I find many of these baby teeth before she has a chance to eat them (which is what puppies do). As our collection of blood-tinged puppy teeth grows, the running joke is — maybe we can sell them to a voodoo doctor who can grind them up for an elixir.
Considering the news coming out of the Congo, our puppy-tooth potion doesn’t sound so far-fetched. At least it doesn’t involve mass raping. From Agence France-Presse:
GOVERNMENT troops sodomised pygmies in March in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, believing they would gain supernatural powers, a regional rights group said.
“Some soldiers from the 85th Brigade sodomised three male pygmies to gain supernatural powers and protection in Kisa village in Walikale territory,” the Human Rights League of the Great Lakes said.
“The village chief was stripped and (sodomised) in the presence of his wife, his children and daughter in-law.
“The children in turn were stripped and raped in front of their father.”
It said armed groups in the region also abused the pygmies.
Elderly citizens and children were also being raped by the armed groups and wayward FARDC soldiers in eastern DRC, it added.
The pygmies live essentially as subsistence hunter-gatherers in the forests in the DRC’s equatorial zones and have been targeted by militia groups in the past.
Exactly what super powers would be gained from this? I don’t remember seeing Unlimited Barbarism in the spell section of the AD&D Player’s Handbook.
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