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Thursday, 5 March 2015
Albinos in Tanzania Are Being Hunted Down Like Animals by their Own Families
In Tanzania, albinos are believed to be the ghosts that brings
wealth, power and luck.
Albinism is a hereditary genetic condition which causes a
total absence of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes.
In Tanzania's albinos are being 'hunted down like animals' as
greed for money and influence drives families to turn on their own loved ones
in a trade allegedly fuelled by some of the country's most powerful people.
It is believed albino body parts will bring a person wealth,
or luck - and for that, people are willing to pay as much as $3,000 or $4,000
for a limb, or as much as $75,000 - about £50,000 - for the 'full set', a whole
body.
People with albinism are regularly attacked by people who chop
their limbs off - an act which either leaves them severely mutilated, or
dead.
Since people began collecting records of the attacks, there
have been 74 killings and 59 survivors of attacks. Even the dead are not
safe: 16 graves have been robbed.
And these are only the recorded cases.
The most recent case saw four-year-old Pendo Emmanuelle
Nundi abducted from her home in December. Her father and uncle were both
arrested in connection with her disappearance, but - despite rewards offered of
£1,130 and promises of swift action from the police - she has not been found.
Charities working in the
area do not hold out much hope she will be returned safely, but - listening to
survivors' stories - it is likely her end is, or will be brutal.
Mwigulu Matonange |
Mwigulu Matonange was just 10 when he was attacked by two men
as he walked home from school with a friend.
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