The report discusses the rumor about the Murle people’s infertility as a justification for child abduction. It found that the unsubstantiated myth has been used as an instrument to justify child abduction, securitization, and systemic exclusion. Using ethnography and archival, medical, and humanitarian sources, the article challenges these myths and outlines how communities contest exclusion, exposing the broader structures of power that sustain scapegoating, violence, and inequality.

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