By Katy Migiro
NYASHANA, Tanzania, March 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A s Tanzanian widow Ruth Zacharia raised her right arm to protect her skull from a volley of machete blows, her three attackers sliced through her hand.
She fell to the floor; one leg slid into the kitchen fire.
“They said: ‘We have been sent by our mother because you killed our father so that you could buy that land’,” the 63-year-old recalled, fidgeting with her stiff, scarred right hand.
“I said: ‘I am not a witch’… They started cutting me all over.”
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