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 Man Shot Dead As Bulletproof Magic Fails
 Reuters
 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010315/od/witchdoctor_dc_1.html

 "A Ghanaian man was shot dead by a fellow villager while testing a magic
 spell designed to make him bulletproof, the official Ghana News Agency
 reported."


Thursday, 21 March, 2002, 19:00 GMT

Aborigine demands right to spear officer

By Phil Mercer
BBC reporter in Sydney
line

An Aboriginal activist is seeking permission from Australia's High Court
to spear a senior police officer to death because he desecrated a sacred
fire.

Aborigine man Australia's aborigines are fighting for equal rights It
follows an incident last year, when the police filed a writ to the court,
ordering a group of Aborigines engaged in a religious ceremony in the
capital, Canberra, to extinguish their fire.

Indigenous campaigner Darren Bloomfield has claimed the senior officer in
charge "has incurred the death penalty under Aboriginal law".

A police investigation into the incident at the Aborigines' so-called
"tent embassy" on the lawns of the Old Parliament House is under way.

Confrontation

The confrontation between Australian Federal police and Aboriginal
activists took place during a religious ceremony at the makeshift camp
ast July.

The tent embassy was established 30 years ago to highlight indigenous
land claims and to further the campaign for a treaty to end
discrimination with white Australia.

In a writ before the High Court, Darren Bloomfield, who describes
himself as an Aboriginal "warrior", alleges Detective Superintendent

Brian Hepworth "desecrated a fire ceremony for peace and justice" by
demanding the flames be extinguished.

Mr Bloomfield said the Detective Superintendent should be charged and
tried under what he called white law and then handed over to his people
where he would face swift indigenous justice and be speared to death.

Determined

However extreme these demands are, Mr Bloomfield has insisted he is
serious and intends to see justice done.

A police spokeswoman said the allegations against the officer were being
investigated.

She said Mr Hepworth was a highly respected member of the Australian
Federal Police force and had been for more than 30 years.




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