Child Murders in Cote d’Ivoire Spark Fears of Pre-Election Ritual Killings, Organ Trade

February 12, 2015

(The Japan Times) – As many as 20 children have been killed, four of whom were found mutilated, in Cote d’Ivoire in the past three months in what some academics and government officials say may be crimes related to elections or organ trafficking. The authorities responded by deploying 1,500 soldiers and police officers to schools, public places and forests and setting up emergency phone lines, including one named “Allo Child in Distress.”