According SARV to the magistrates, the urgency of the SARV incident forces Village courts have a range of civil and criminal jurisdictions the village courts to intervene for the safety of those accused. [...] After the first court to address all the previous deaths in the village, claiming the mention, the clan leaders of the two victims talked with the two suspects were the cause of those deaths too. [...] They with the community leaders, decided that the perpetrators invited the police and village court officials to mediate the had to pay compensation to the two victims, and later that case. [...] The mediation committee ordered the perpetrators to the two victims had to pay compensation to the family of pay K50,000 cash and 70 pigs to the clan of one victim and the child, but less than what was received by them from the for the other victim’s clan, agreed upon K30,000 and 50 pigs. [...] After the two Interviews with each of the members of the accused family victims were handed over, the police gave a verbal order that and some of the accusers showed that the sorcery accusation the perpetrators should surrender before the evening of that was used as a pretext to acquire the land that the accusers’ same day.
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