From UK Daily Mail
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.
Albinism, a
hereditary genetic condition which causes a total absence of
pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes, affects one Tanzanian in 1,400,
often as a result of inbreeding in remote and rural communities,
experts say. In the West, it affects just one person in 20,000.
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 was just 10 when he was attacked by two men as he walked home from school with a friend.
They chopped off his left arm, before disappearing back into the jungle with their 'prize'.
'I was held down like a goat about to be slaughtered,' he told IPP Media after the February 2014 attack.
In Mwigulu's case, the two men were strangers: he had never seen them before.
But
it is understood suspicion turned on Pendo's father after he took
half-an-hour to report her abduction, despite there being neighbours who
could have helped as soon as she was taken.
It is not
just parents. A 38-year-old woman with albinism was attacked with
machetes by her husband and four other men while she was sleeping in
February 2013, according to a UN report.
Her eight-year-old daughter watched her father leave the bedroom carrying her mother's arm.
Those
living with albinism in Tanzania fear the lure of making a couple of
hundred dollars - three times the minimum wage earned in the country -
is placing them in danger, even from their own families.
'Now
we can see the parents who are involved in planning the attacks. What
kind of war are we fighting if parents and family do this? Who can we
trust?' Josephat Torner, who campaigns for albino rights, asked.
'You do not know who is your enemy.'
Josephat,
who himself is albino, added: 'People with the albinism are being
hunted and killed for our body parts. It is because people want to
become rich.
'We
are still living in danger. It is because people, they have different
ideas. Some people, they are thinking they should get our body parts and
sell to different places.
'The question is, why? Why now? And who is behind the killings?'
Exactly who remains unknown.
But
Josephat - who has received death threats for his work, and was
attacked in 2012 - said: 'The big fishes are behind the issue. It has
been really a big discussion. If I say big fish, or big people, it is
those who have enough resources, enough money.
'People sell the body parts for high prices. So it is not really small fish behind it.
'It could be politicians. It could be those people.'
There are,
campaigners know, times when more albino attacks take place. And they
know, with the general election coming up in October, now is one of the
most dangerous times to be an albino.
The UN warned political campaigners were turning to witch doctors to help them win election back in August.
'People with albinism are hiding while there are elections,' said Peter.
Josephat added: 'This year we are going to have an election. Since last year, we have been seeing attacks and killings.'
Already, there has been a noticeable increase.
Over
the course of just 11 days last year, there were three attacks and two
attempted attacks on people with albinism in Tanzania.
One
man, thought to be in his early 20s, was found lying dead, his body
mutilated, in the grass by some schoolchildren in a suburb of Dar Es
Salaam.
The next day, a mother-of-seven was attacked in the Tabora region of Tanzania, losing her arm.
A few days before, 15-year-old Pendo Sengerema was attacked as she ate dinner at home with her family.
They hacked off her right arm just below the elbow, before running off into the dark.
According
to Under the Same Sun, a witch doctor had received an order from a
wealthy client indicating that if Pendo’s arm could be provided, it
would garner a price of $600.
The attack left Pendo terrified, begging to be sent away from her village.
'I am asking the police to move me to a safer place and protect me because bad men might come back to kill me,' she pleaded.
These
'safer places' are the centres set up around the country, where large
number of people with albinism are living behind high walls for their
own protection.
The camps were established after the first high profile waves of attacks, a knee-jerk response to a terrifying situation.
'It was supposed to be a short term solution,' Peter said. 'But there was no long term plan.'
Years later, they still exist - and now are not just for children: adults are kept behind the camps' high walls as well.
'Children who are there, they are living there maybe for seven years without going back to their families,' said Josephat.
'At
the end of the day, families or communities do not want to allow them
to go back. These children are growing up without any parental care.'
'If
you ask the community why now are they forcing their children to the
camps, they are saying it is where they belong. But we are not for the
camps: we are for the community.'
God..in this generation?..what has the world become
ReplyDeleteThis is just inhuman and mean and senseless
ReplyDeleteThis is just inhuman and mean and senseless
ReplyDeleteWow
ReplyDeleteDis is really sad
ReplyDeleteOmg..speechless
ReplyDeleteOmg..speechless
ReplyDeleteGezz 2bad
ReplyDeleteTo read this is even irritating
ReplyDelete2bad d govt shld do somfin abt it
ReplyDeleteNot fair
ReplyDeleteMR EDDY said this heat wan kill person o.
ReplyDeleteBlood of God. People can be so wicked. I feel for them.
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This is unfair, they're fellow human beings like us. This nonsense should stop!
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. The heart of man is indeed desperately wicked.
ReplyDeleteJeez! This is too sad
ReplyDeleteSee the name of d country sef...Tanzania as in... Tanza of the jungle..they still live in primitive age of d homosapien...how on earth can somebody or a country have such a barbaric belief? Lawd have mercy.,,
ReplyDeleteDid I hear u say 'primitive age of the homo sapiens ' get ur facts rights. Go back to ur history books. Homo sapiens aren't primitive. We are the homo sapiens ie the thinking man
Deleteso touching...Linda u hav tried na pls go nd slp...
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There is nothing i won't hear or see in this world ooooo....I really thankGod for Internet.... U see the reason why we are referred to as monkey's and animal by the whites......just imagine , chopping off the hand of 10 yr old girl for one stupid superstitious belief, I don't even know what to say, am speechless...... God help that country....I thought Tanzania was one of the best country in Africa.......
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Nawa ooooooo...all this violence!!!
ReplyDeleteAcute cruelty!
ReplyDeleteJesus!? This is serious, have heard about Tanzania and albinos
ReplyDeleteOmg, I feel sorry for them o
ReplyDeleteThis is unfair!this people shud elope to anoda country sharp!#lindi change ur profile pichsure#:)
ReplyDeleteAfricans smh. Some of them act like animals. Nonsense superstition.
ReplyDeleteGracious Lord, dis Pple r sooo mean.
ReplyDeletethis is serious ooo...
ReplyDeletewtf..
Na wa oooo
ReplyDeleteThis is serious
ReplyDeleteAlbinos? I can't imagine how miserable their lives with be knowing that they are been hunted like a bush meat even by their family members.
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What nonsense.... this news ain't good for Nigerian's o cos all our albino's will be in trouble. this is the craziest thing I have heard this year #onelovefromsnow#
ReplyDeleteAm carrying 4 dis world
ReplyDeleteThis is soo devilish. What type of stupid absurd belief is this ? I think its time to sleep. Linda has bn posting scary stories.
ReplyDeleteHmmm,evil everywhere!
ReplyDeleteHmmm may God forgive those behind this devilish act....Nigerian politicians must not know about this oh.
ReplyDeleteThat is so cruel
ReplyDeleteDiscrimination! !!!!
ReplyDeleteThis world is wicked. May God help us.
ReplyDeleteBusy Fingers.
Wonders shall end...What a pathetic situation !
ReplyDeleteLol...no seriously its not funny....who on their right sense will think that they bring good luck....the way some people think sometimes baffles me
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na wa oooo....na wetin dey affect africa bb dis
ReplyDeleteThe heart of man is desperately wicked. Who can know it?
ReplyDeleteNah Whaoooo many things is happen in dis world.......albino nah raw diamond in Tanzania
ReplyDeleteNa wa ooooooo....may God forgive them oooo they are humans nah..dis world sef
ReplyDeletewicked world... may God protect them. (Amen)
ReplyDeleteThis tanzania people are mean o
ReplyDeleteSelling their own family member all for money
This is an act of wickedness. Turning people into handicaps over night because of their barbaric ideas about riches. They can't hide from God's judgement.
ReplyDeleteWhat's this? Nganga, what's this? I thought they had stopped this rubbish...sob....heartbreaking....
ReplyDeleteWhat a world God help us
ReplyDeleteIt is time Africa should start welcoming peace
ReplyDeleteI cnt stand the ways some Africans reason sometimes. Evil people.
ReplyDeleteGod wat is dis? To b albino don turn cause.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad. To think that its no fault of Thiers.
ReplyDelete@Sophia Stephen
God's protection upon u all. #AlbinosInTanzania
ReplyDeleteLord hv mercy!man's inhumanity to man!wat kind of ppl r these! Awareness shld b raised about ds oo.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmm,
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous and totally unacceptable.
I pray dis come to end asap.
In dis modern era we shouldn't b hearing dis@all.
Hmmmmmm,
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous and totally unacceptable.
I pray dis come to end asap.
In dis modern era we shouldn't b hearing dis@all.
Hmmmmmm,
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous and totally unacceptable.
I pray dis come to end asap.
In dis modern era we shouldn't b hearing dis@all.
Hmmmmmm,
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous and totally unacceptable.
I pray dis come to end asap.
In dis modern era we shouldn't b hearing dis@all.
Hmmmmmm,
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous and totally unacceptable.
I pray dis come to end asap.
In dis modern era we shouldn't b hearing dis@all.
this is very bad
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Africa!!! Always 100 years behind.
ReplyDeletethis article just fucked my mood up..so so sad.. #ExitHumanity.
ReplyDeletethis article just fucked my mood up..so so sad.. #ExitHumanity.
ReplyDeleteTanzania...a no go area for albinos...na wa o
ReplyDeletewow. this is indeed a sad story. we Africans are our own problem. Greed!!!
ReplyDeleteJesus wept
ReplyDeleteTerrifying story! What a wicked world we living in :(
ReplyDeleteIts not fair now, this is actually cruel αи∂ inhuman
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm.....odiegwu,what people can do for money.....SMH
ReplyDeleteThis is sooo sad :(
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad mehn what kinda world do we live in for christ sake. This is barbaric
ReplyDeleteMay God help u all
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteI can't believe what I just read. So a very serious thing like this could happen in Africa?
ReplyDeleteNothing way person nor go hear...#stopthekillingofouralbinos
ReplyDeleteAuntylindagoddaughter
Love of money is the root of all evil
ReplyDeleteMy God
ReplyDeleteThat's some bullshit!!!,like really @ this modern day and age???tnks God say naija don civilise small.
ReplyDeleteAh!!! Oh Lord have mercy!
ReplyDeleteAnd you wonder why Africa is so backwards.....
ReplyDeleteAh!!! Oh Lord have mercy!
ReplyDeleteSigns of d end time. Wot an archaic way to reason. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteSigns of d end time. Wot an archaic way to reason. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteSigns of d end time. Wot an archaic way to reason. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteSigns of d end time. Wot an archaic way to reason. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteI cry as I read this. Afterall they didn't create themselves or choose to be born that way. I can imagine the fear they carry about daily. It's unfair....
ReplyDeleteWonders shall never end
ReplyDeleteWonders shall never end
ReplyDeleteI read this and i'm so so sad. Shaken to my core. I weep for how desperate man is for money and Fame. Willing to kill to settle the bill.. What good is money if you cannot sleep at night..This is the height of wickedness Albino's are beautiful and no less important than any other person.May the souls of those affected find peace.
ReplyDeleteDis is crazy... They're human beings like u na!
ReplyDeleteNawa oo...i prefer my naija
ReplyDeleteDats why dey call african people animals
ReplyDeleteThis is really terrible....feel bad for them! dear Lord come to thy children aids.
ReplyDeleteIm in shock.UNBELIVABLE.
ReplyDeleteSaw a documentary on cnn abt dis a while back, dis is sad
ReplyDeleteOga o...awon afin ma wa daran ni Tanzania bayii o
ReplyDeleteIs this for real. Money money money root of all evils.
ReplyDeleteShalom in Nigeria, Amen.
Linda I watched d video last year its quite sad shocking and unremorseful to do dis to another human being just caused u are an illerate to get money fast Wats easy to get in life nothing
ReplyDeletein this modern day, such things still happen. they really nid to b educatd. it reminds me of the killing of twins .
ReplyDeletein this modern day, such things still happen. they really nid to b educatd. it reminds me of the killing of twins .
ReplyDeleteThis is really terrifying....human beings are its owns worst enemies...always preying on minorities.
ReplyDeleteThe heart of man is desperately wicked....I shudder with disbelief...my nephew had albinism...he his living a wonderful life in the USA...thank God for the opportunities..
ReplyDeleteIn other news...I watched American Sniper today..and really feel sad for Chris Kyle family...what a man!...killed in the country where he sacrificed for...
Pathetic!
ReplyDeleteLord of mercy. You are not safe even with your own family members!!! Husband decapitating wife??
ReplyDeleteThat hurts . It really does .
ReplyDeleteThis is the reason why the world thinks Africa is a jungle! When people do stupid and fetish things like this; hunting humans like game in the quest for ill gotten money. It why they always think we live up in the trees, because humans don't do despicable things like this!
ReplyDeleteWooooow so this kinda shit still happen????? I really feel for those people sha .....
ReplyDeleteNothing we really wouldn't hear for the love of money. But this is just too bad nau. They should take it easy on the albinos
ReplyDeleteLORD have mercy
ReplyDeleteThis is So bad
ReplyDeleteAll living beings God created is good....why kill these people or destroy any parts of their body for goodness sake.....Is it a crime that GOD made them this way?
@Tanzania for that matter.....that country,they are do diabolical
@Dr Epelle of Albino foundation here in Nigeria.... Abeg loud am ooo...before some people begin dey kill albino here use dem do Yahoo yahoo rituals
@Galore
What a cruel act. Human being the greatest enemy of himself. Until humans stop being selfish and greedy, then the world will be change.
ReplyDeleteDis is heart wrenching, gross, heartlessness at d heart order. Poverty I curse u. Wht ll make a father sell his child's limbs for moni. Hw ll such people spend such moni. Jehovah ve mercy on Africa, so all dis senseless, ritualistic killings ll end. #mercy #grace
ReplyDeleteAfrica is really a dark continent
ReplyDeleteMay God protect Nigerian albinos. Nigerian criminals with their adaptive nature may be tempted to start exporting albino parts to Tanzania.
ReplyDeleteGoodness, this is serious!!
ReplyDeleteSad...miracleudechukwu@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteWat kinda stupid belive is dat eh,nawa fr all dis africa countries always belivin rubbish.
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What kind of barbarism is this. Little wonder dos gives over there refer to us as monkies
ReplyDelete'Full Set' WTF...lai shey chinese fried rice,kum pao chicken...lmaooo..Lord forgive me for laughing!!!
ReplyDeleteAwwww, see how their skin colour has turned 2 a curse...really feeling bad 4 dem
ReplyDelete#when will Africans stop acting so greedy
ReplyDeleteWow! Linda dis post is rily profound. Hope dis evil act b curtailed. Jay-b
ReplyDeleteBarbaric!..... #nwamas
ReplyDeletethings dey happen shaa.It's so bad that they had to isolate them, but nawaooo. God be with them however i wonder what those behind this are using the human parts for and how they're been used too.
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ReplyDeleteIlletracy and Wickedness. I wonder what this world ua turning into.
ReplyDeleteThis in our modern age!!! Gosh!!! It too barbaric what people can do for money.
ReplyDeleteEvil act.
ReplyDeleteMethod of making cash........yum and pass.
ReplyDeleteThis is yet another story that reinforces the impression there's tyranny of the majority throughout Africa. Homogeneity rules. Albinos, gays, divorcés, 30 plus single women and a litany of other "oddities" are all out. Where's the freedom to be different, to live in peace no matter one's quirks, on the continent? One box can never fit all.
ReplyDeleteLol... na wa oo
ReplyDeleteThis is heart wrenching! How backward can a Country and her ppl be? Too many tales of killings! I jst can't deal!!!
ReplyDeleteMehn dis is sad.
ReplyDeleteJeez! What a wicked act. All dese people with supersitious beliefs. Even family members are in support!!! Its onli God dat can save d albinos there cos even d govt are after dem
ReplyDeleteThe love of plenty has indeed' wax cold'...imagine the brutality. Something should be done asap
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May God help us
ReplyDeleteEnd time........
ReplyDeleteSea money say so via droid
oooh Africa,......I have been telling my friends if we Black Africans became civilized before the whites our racism would have been worst,......True or False?
ReplyDelete#Linda's give away
This is horrible
ReplyDeleteoooh Africa,......I have been telling my friends if we Black Africans became civilized before the whites our racism would have been worst,......True or False?
ReplyDelete#Linda's give away
oooh Africa,......I have been telling my friends if we Black Africans became civilized before the whites our racism would have been worst,......True or False?
ReplyDelete#Linda's give away
This is barbaric
ReplyDeleteNow this is crazy..
ReplyDeleteWickness of the highest order.....haba!!!
ReplyDeleteMy God! How people comfortably take away what they cant give? these are lives for christ sake! and yes! there Big fishes behind it. Goodmorning Linda.
ReplyDeleteLord have mercy!!! End time things.
ReplyDeleteSuch a pity!
ReplyDeleteNawah oooh
ReplyDeleteLord have mercy!!! See wickedness!!! So they're not safe even with their own family!
ReplyDeleteJesus! What kind of world is this??
ReplyDeleteAfricans!!!!!!!!! Haba na, i taya ooo.
ReplyDeleteGod why are people so evil eh!!! this is just wrong. may God protect the albino's.............
ReplyDeleteOmg dis is nt , nao dey are also humans dey shud live like dem and nt be humiliated
ReplyDeleteChai....what a pity.
ReplyDeletenawa oo cnt human being rest wetin i tire jawe
ReplyDeleteThings are happening oh....being an albino is now a sin in tanzania. I feel 4 them, I hope their govt do sometin abt it.
ReplyDeleteNawa oo. This is cannibalism.
ReplyDeleteWhy kill and hurt innocent people just because of their skin colour and your quest for quick wealth..?..... when I see albinos there is this sudden feeling of pity I have towards them, because even in some places in Nigeria albinos are discriminated ,**God please touch the heart of those wicked men**
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Terrifying
ReplyDeleteAfrica oh Africa...... so sad
ReplyDeleteThis is scary
ReplyDeleteThis is pure evil. I feel so sad right now.
ReplyDeleteWow!...
ReplyDeleteAfrica!!! Little wonder we are backward!
ReplyDeleteBack to the main issue, why should the govt stress themselves trying to protect all the albinos when they can instead go after the witch doctors that use them. I believe d witch doctors r less than a 100 in d whole country so if d doctors can be found and killed the demand for d albinos would be NO MORE!!!
nawah ooh whre dem go run go now?tomjerryswit
ReplyDeleteChaiiiii. Bad tins re happening in dis world ooo. God pls hv mercy on ur people. #oneandonlynwa@gmail.com#
ReplyDeleteLord av mercy, i dnt even know d words to describe these horrendous acts, hmmmm
ReplyDeleteThis is bad...the world has gone crazy, God protect this poor innocent people.
ReplyDeleteAwww! Dts 2 bad na. May God give u guys d strength 2 overcm n may He protect all of u. #save d albinos.
ReplyDeleteFloxyrose
Geez! They are humans for crying out loud
ReplyDeleteThat's bad
ReplyDeleteINNOCENT CITIZENS...GOD WILL JUDGE THEM ALL
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oh my God....Thats horrible!
ReplyDeletewhat a wicked world,, people get mind sha oh
ReplyDeleteWow...wat pple do for money these days is alarming... Even ur loved ones betray u... Hmmm
ReplyDeleteGod have mercy...
ReplyDeleteWhat! That's not fair. Tanzania is worse than Nigeria in this regard
ReplyDeleteThese people are still in the medieval period. May God send them the spirit of liberation and bring themback to their senses.
ReplyDeleteThis is very sad
ReplyDeletena wa ooo
ReplyDeleteDis is unbelievable, Wat is the government doing about it? I can't just imagine what ppl go tru in life
ReplyDeleteGod!
ReplyDeleteThis is really cruel!!!!!!! But how can it then be stopped? How can they be doing this to fellow human?
ReplyDeleteNo story everyday.....no wonder dy are getting richer everyday. Lord huv mercy
ReplyDeleteThe heart of man is terribly wicked. ur own child? dats d height of it.
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ReplyDeleteWetin we nor go hear 4 Africa......
ReplyDeleteSo sad choi! man's inhumanity to man,I see why pple from other parts of the world still see Africa's as barbaric and as animals cox som part of Africa still behaves as such thereby coxin troubles for d rest of us africans,after dis documentary hw do u expect dem to see Africa hmmm
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ReplyDeleteEyaaaa! Der Complexion is now a problem!!! Whhat. A Life
ReplyDeletebarbaric and Psychopaths.
ReplyDeleteWhat stupid luck.
The perpetrators of this act should be butchered piece by piece to have a feel of their inhuman behavior.
I think the Government should give these people gun so that they can shoot anyone trying to come closer to them.
ReplyDeleteEnd time....
ReplyDeleteGod have mercy
ReplyDeleteI feel so concerned about the child who saw the father walk out of the room with the mothers mutilated limb. He will never be able to erase that picture from his mind and might end up a bitter person or even kill his father in the future. Nigerian politicians should not even think of doing this cos that will be too bad.
ReplyDeletesounds like a nightmare
ReplyDeleteOmg!!! dis is disheartening. Even family members
ReplyDeleteGod have mercy. In this generation? What kind of luck do they expect their fellow living human beings body wil bring to them??? They are completely sick in their heads. This is the signs of end time. Jesus christ is coming soon
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