http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g7aX79gpomfcyLdKKcUv6Ce5LufA
AFP
7 January 2008
Police cheer as Kenya's witch-wary looters return war spoils
NAIROBI (AFP) - Dozens of looters who profited from Kenya's post-election unrest began returning or dumping their ill-gotten gains around the port city of Mombasa Monday, frightened of cursed goods, police said.
Television footage showed fearful, if not shameful, looters and their accomplices returning beds, sofa sets and other items after rumours that victims had deployed witch doctors to punish the thieves. [...]
[It is rumored that some looters "cannot urinate or pass stool. And another one is rotting in one eye."]
http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=114165
Daily Nation [Kenya]
9 January 2008
Mombasa looters return stolen property
Story by AMINA KIBIRIGE
[A thief returning stolen goods admits, "What drove us to this point is a rumour doing rounds that one man dropped dead as he carried away a stolen TV set from an electronic shop in Magongo.” According to one woman, “I have seen with my own eyes several people who are now complaining that they cannot go the toilet anymore, just a few days after looting.” Some other looters see ghosts.]
AFP
7 January 2008
Police cheer as Kenya's witch-wary looters return war spoils
NAIROBI (AFP) - Dozens of looters who profited from Kenya's post-election unrest began returning or dumping their ill-gotten gains around the port city of Mombasa Monday, frightened of cursed goods, police said.
Television footage showed fearful, if not shameful, looters and their accomplices returning beds, sofa sets and other items after rumours that victims had deployed witch doctors to punish the thieves. [...]
[It is rumored that some looters "cannot urinate or pass stool. And another one is rotting in one eye."]
http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=114165
Daily Nation [Kenya]
9 January 2008
Mombasa looters return stolen property
Story by AMINA KIBIRIGE
[A thief returning stolen goods admits, "What drove us to this point is a rumour doing rounds that one man dropped dead as he carried away a stolen TV set from an electronic shop in Magongo.” According to one woman, “I have seen with my own eyes several people who are now complaining that they cannot go the toilet anymore, just a few days after looting.” Some other looters see ghosts.]
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL09264903.html
Reuters Africa
9 January 2008
Kenya looters fear black magic, return goods
By Celestine Achieng
http://216.180.252.4/archives/?mnu=details&id=1143980069&catid=159
The Standard [Kenya]
Kenya looters fear black magic, return goods
By Celestine Achieng
http://216.180.252.4/archives/?mnu=details&id=1143980069&catid=159
The Standard [Kenya]
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