The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) have appeaeled to the Malawi Police Service to institute swift investigation into criminal elements surrounding the Salima violence and ensure that perpetrators are brought before the courts of law.
Michael Kayiyatsa CHRR boss:Worryingly, although there have been arrests in all these cases, none of those arrests has so far led to a conviction, a situation that has contributed to the growing culture of impunity around witchcraft accusations-related violence in the country
The two human rights watchdogs say they are dismayed by the continued attacks on people accused of witchcraft in the country and the failure to bring to justice perpetrators of such crimes.