Published: October 5, 2009
Tanzanian albino children at a picnic organised by the Tanzania Red Cross Society in the government-run school for the disabled in Kabanga. There are now nearly 50 albino children, youngsters and single mothers sheltering in Kabanga, which also houses children with disabilities and hearing and sight problems. Many of the albinos only just escaped their villages with their lives and tell harrowing stories of killing and mutilation. One small boy says his non-albino mother’s hand was severed by albino hunters armed with machetes after she tried to prevent them seizing him. |
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Tanzanian Albinos Find A Refuge In Tanzania albinos are still living in fear of being attacked or killed after nearly 50 were murdered in the past two years. It is thought that they are being killed because of the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people transmit magical powers. Witch doctors are willing [...]