Anas Aremeyaw Anas

This video that I watched was about the works of Anas Aremeyaw Anas under cover journalism. He remains anonymous by covering his face. He does this so he can continue his work. Also so he doesn’t get hunted down by the people he has uncovered through his work. He has been working in this type of journalism for 14 years. His 3 basic principles are naming, shaming and jailing. He wants to bring light to the people that are committing crimes, shame them publicly for the harm they are doing and put them behind bars and see justice served.

 

The first under cover story he talks about is called “Spirit Child”. It is about the murder of children born with deformities in African villages. When a child is born with a deformity the family feels as if it is not good enough to live in society. There was a group of people that were called in that would come in and create the concoctions to administer to the children. These concoctions were lethal and would kill the children. He set undercover cameras and used a prosthetic baby with a deformity and called in the group. The group came in to prepare the concoctions and once they were ready to administer to the fake baby the police busted them. They are now being tried in court for their crimes.

 

The second story was “The spell of the albino”. In Tanzania children born with albinism are sometimes considered unfit to live in society. Their bodies are mutilated with machetes and parts of their bodies are used to create concoctions/potions that are sold for money. He got hard evidence of someone speaking about how they obtain these body parts and was able to give the government in Tanzania enough evidence to fight and crack down on this type of horrific act.

Here is a image of Anas.

 

Wikipedia has some interesting facts about Anas. You can read that info here.