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| Africa Live: Children rescued as Zimbabwe police unearth cult graves - BBC News | |
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| Police in Zimbabwe say they have arrested the suspected leader of a religious cult in a village in northern Mashonaland West province and rescued dozens of women and children. | |
| Ishmael Chokurongerwa, 56, who leads the Gore Jena Penyeranyika sect was arrested alongside seven other senior members of the cult on Tuesday, police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said in a statement. | |
| Police said most of the 251 children found in Mr Chokurongerwa's farm in Nyabira, about 34km (21 miles) north-west of the capital, Harare, had no birth certificates and were not allowed to attend school. | |
| Police also discovered a gravesite at the farm where 16 people have been secretly interred, including seven infants whose burials were not registered with authorities. | |
| The rescued children "were being used to perform various physical activities for the benefit of the sect’s leadership", the police statement said. | |
| “Police also established that all children were subjected to abuse such as cheap labour, doing manual work in the name of being taught life skills," it added. | |
| Mr Chokurongerwa, who calls himself "Prophet Ishmael", told local reporters that he was “not aware of women’s and children’s rights”. | |
| One of the cult members told reporters that formal education in schools was not wanted by God "because what children are taught there is against the teachings of God". | |
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