Mingi is an old tradition belonging to the Kara, Hamar and Banna tribes residing in the Omo valley of Ethiopia.

Children will be cursed and considered to have evil spirits if they have an upper jaw that grows before the lower jaw.

The name of the ritual is meant to describe a child who is cursed and must be killed immediately to protect the safety of the entire tribe.

The Mingi ceremony took place secretly in the Omo valley.

When discovering that a child is Mingi, the elders of the tribe will take the child from the hands of their parents, then drown them, or let them starve to death in the forest, let animals eat them, and throw them away.

With the above method of exorcism, the Mingi ritual became a horror to the world community when they discovered it.

Due to the nature of the exorcism ritual, Mingi is a taboo subject and is not openly mentioned in the village.

The whole world learned about Mingi thanks to a young man named Labuko Lale, who came from the Omo valley and went to school at a boarding school 105 km away.

Lale held the hands of the Mingi children he had saved.

Lale first learned about this ritual when he was 15 years old.

After a period of connecting with the Ethiopian government and mobilizing capital from international donors to establish a non-profit humanitarian organization, Lale has so far saved 37 newborns considered Mingi.

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Ethiopia’s full name is the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, located in northeast Africa (also known as the Horn of Africa).

For most of its history, Ethiopia has been a constitutional monarchy, and dynastic traces in Ethiopia date back to the 2nd century BC.

Anh Minh (according to Natgeo)