Church wants trafficking probe

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Maputo - The Roman Catholic Cchurch in Mozambique's northern Nampula region on Thursday insisted its claims of a human organ trafficking network operating in the province and targeting children were true.

Reacting to news reports suggesting the church had lied, the Archbishop of Nampula, Tome Makhweliha, said in a statement: "We reject all mechanisms being used to silence the church efforts to denounce the trafficking of children, assassinations and mutilations of corpses.

"We declare as false all the information that insinuates that the church is divided and distant from those who, on its behalf, denounced these crimes from the very beginning," the statement added.

The church demanded a continued probe to bring the alleged criminals to book.

A Danish woman, Tania Skyette and her white Zimbabwean husband Garry O' Connor, accused of trafficking human organs in Mozambique by the church, say they have been persecuted for eight months most probably in a bid to grab land.

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