Newsflash!

[korakthesavage]

October 7, 2011

We have just learned that over the last 20 months 14 shamans have been murdered in Peru’s northeastern jungle region of Loreto.
According to the newspaper La República: The provincial prosecutor’s office said that the murders were allegedly ordered by the mayor of Balsa Puerto, Alfredo Torres, and carried out by his brother, Augusto,

Comments

[wolfvanzandt]

I strongly suspect that the only reason we don't have the Inquisition (in the historical sense) in America is that it would very quickly run afoul of the law.

Hmm....I would confuse them. I'm a Protestant shaman. (Actually, no....they'd just kill me anyway.)

[korakthesavage]

It's a sad state of affairs in South America in general. I keep trying to explain it to US citizens who don't read much, but they just don't seem to get it... or to care. The South American Indians are going through their version of "how the west was won" NOW. We Americans can't change our history of native genocide- but we can try to stop what's happening down there in the present. If not with direct action, then with concern and condemnation.

[wolfvanzandt]

It's like this....killing people who are different is probably the wave of the future.

This isn't as snide as it sounds (darn the Internet) - I really am interested in your ideas. How do you propose to stop it? South American leaders have never been particularly susceptible to "peer pressure".

If an Islamic individual converts to Christianity in many parts of the world, their first official act should probably be to buy a cemetery plot. I haven't noticed much of a diminution in that yet. There are martyrs all over the place - there always has been - there always will be in human history. I can easily see it happening to me....or you....sometime in the not too distant future. If it does, I'll chalk it up to humans being.

Shamanism isn't going to die. It's been around for a long time and I just don't see it going anywhere soon.