883: Annie Ikpa | The Campaign to End Child Sacrifice
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Video editor Annie Ikpa explains how she galvanized a movement to ban child sacrifice in Uganda, and what's in store for the fight ahead.
What We Discuss with Annie Ikpa:- Why child sacrifice is so common in Uganda that Annie Ikpa had to spend seven years campaigning for a law against it.
- Who hires the exploitative witch doctors who perform these sacrifices in the name of fortune or other earthly delights?
- How children are selected for sacrifice because they're relatively easy to abduct, less likely to fight back, and are regarded by true believers as spiritually more "pure" than adults.
- Why even a child who is "lucky" enough to survive a sacrifice is left mentally and physically traumatized — often with brutal scars across their bodies, missing limbs, and/or mutilated genitals.
- What you can do to help raise awareness and put a stop to this barbarous practice that continues in spite of positive strides in preventative legislation.
- And much more...
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| 0:20.9 | You're finding that witch doctors are capitalizing off people's vulnerability |
| 0:25.7 | and promising them the world on a stick if you are to sacrifice your own child. |
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| 1:21.2 | Today on The Show, Annie Iqba is an activist based in the UK who helped pass a law banning |
| 1:26.2 | child sacrifice in Uganda. I know there was apparently no law against child sacrifice before. |
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