If you Google “Trafficking Body Parts”, the results that will most likely appear are about transplants or use of organs and body parts for medical purposes. However, a research conducted in 2008 by the Mozambican Human Rights League, has established that Trafficking Body Parts occurs regularly both within Mozambique and across the border to South Africa. The research found that none of the 72 accounts of issues relating to trafficking body parts could possibly have resulted in a transplant.
The report shows that so-called witchdoctors actively seek human body parts (usually through a third party) from live victims to be used in their medicine as it is a commonly held belief that traditional medicine, when made with body parts, is stronger and more powerful.
To read the full research project report (2008) in English click here.
Para ler o relatório completo do projecto de pesquisa (2008), carregue aqui.
On following posts, we will be giving more information about this issue.
