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I was over at Peace And Curls and came across this really disturbing story about how Albinos in Tanzania are hunted for their body parts. Many of the people in Tanzania believe that Albinos have magical powers which can be used to help cure poverty.
The sun used to be his main enemy, but now he has others.
Mluge is an albino, and in Tanzania there is a price for his pinkish skin now.
“I feel like I am being hunted,” he said.
Discrimination against albinos is a serious problem throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but recently in Tanzania it has taken a wicked twist: At least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year, victims of what Tanzanian officials say is a growing criminal trade in albino body parts.
Many people in Tanzania — and across Africa, for that matter — believe albinos have magical powers. They stand out, often the lone white face in a black crowd, a result of a genetic condition that impairs normal skin pigmentation and strikes about one in 3,000 people here. Tanzanian officials say witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich.
As the threats have increased, the Tanzanian government has mobilized to protect its albino population, an already beleaguered group whose members are often shunned as outcasts and die of skin cancer before they reach 30.
Read the rest of this story over at Seattle Times.
Exactly.
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absolutely disturbing. it’s crazy the crap that people believe.