Human Goods

(source: IRIN)

As presidential elections in Cote d’Ivoire approach, IRIN reported that the West African country has seen a spike in child abductions.  Only in this case, it’s not just for sex and labor trafficking.  IRIN is attributing it to “political hopefuls using traditional myths of human sacrifice to improve their electoral chances will fuel an already significant market for stolen children.”

In this ravaged country, children are already trafficked for their organs, for sex, and for labor.  I guess for ole fashioned sacrifice too.

IRIN interviewed a spokesperson for the country’s police:

Organ traffickers, who slice out hearts, kidneys, lungs and other body parts for sale to medical facilities and soothsayers are the main culprits, Bi said. The children are also taken to work in the sex trade, for use by illegal adoption rings, and for work on plantations, he said.

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