A gang murdered and mutilated a 10-year-old albino girl in Tanzania - because they wanted to sell her body parts to witch doctors.

Esther Charles was killed in Shilela in the western region of the African country on Sunday.

She died just hours after President Jakaya Kikwete called for a crackdown on gangs, saying the killing of albinos has "stained the country's good image".

At least 26 other albinos, mostly women and children, have been killed in different parts of the east African country over the past year.

Albinos lack melanin pigment in the skin, eyes and hair, which protects from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

But witch doctors believe they have magical powers to bring fortune, and discrimination against albinos is rife across sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2007, police in Tanzania reported several cases of people digging up the bodies of children to remove organs, in many cases the genitals and eyes, to make potions used in rituals.

Shilela councillor Joseph Manyara told a rally organised by the Tanzania Albino Society (TAS): "It is utterly stupid for some people to believe that albinos have magic powers and their parts can make them rich.

"People should be provided with education to understand that it is only through hard working that they can prosper in life and not through selling albinos' body parts."

Police said they have arrested 47 people suspected to be involved in the killings this year.

But TAS chairman Ernest Kimaya blasted authorities over the speed at which the murders were solved.

He said: "We are yet to witness any convictions and incidents of the murder of albinos are on the rise."

have a case of one albino woman who has been hiding for more than three months after her sister was killed. This is a very serious case. We are calling upon the government to address the problem.

Ernest Kimaya, chairman of the Tanzania Albino Society

There are about 150,000 albinos in the country, and more than 8,000 of them are registered with the TAS.

Some families kill albino babies upon birth, Tanzanian authorities say.

And authorities in Kenya and Burundi, where albino killings have also been reported in recent months, have started to give added protection.

Some reports say albino skin is prized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, another troubled African nation where superstition is high.



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African and her mentality, just different kinda people with animal mentality.

The widespread discrimination of white-skinned albinos in Africa is the same as Racism.

folem:

The widespread discrimination of white-skined albinos in Africa is the same as Racism.

Albino are not of different race, so u cant call this racism, but i will call it ignorance and voodoo"ism" if there is a word like that.

Didn't albinos stage a protest last week there?

wonder why the respective governments including nigeria are not taking a definite stance on it by promulgating laws to protect them

Sad, very sad. Superstition/ignorance/disease is retarding Africa's development from Cape to Cairo------ makes my heart bleed

The problem is the so-called witch doctors. Useless, powerless and full of deceit, they encourage this carnage by fooling the fools in Africa that a human can violate the laws of nature.

In my world, all witch doctors, dibias and babalawos would be tried for murder, definitely found guilty, and thrown in jail. I'll see how they'll escape from prison with their useless, non-existent powers.

I don't know why some Africans still believe that one idiot sitting in a dirty hut can magically change the course of events and violate the laws that govern our universe.

Albino?? For juju?? When?? How?? to which god??

Poor Albinos. First we were using twins, now Albinos, next will prolly be retards.

MC Usman:

[b]But witch doctors believe they have magical powers to bring fortune, and discrimination against albinos is rife across sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2007, police in Tanzania reported several cases of people digging up the bodies of children to remove organs, in many cases the genitals and eyes, to make potions used in rituals.

Shilela councillor Joseph Manyara told a rally organised by the Tanzania Albino Society (TAS): "It is utterly stupid for some people to believe that albinos have magic powers and their parts can make them rich.

"People should be provided with education to understand that it is only through hard working that they can prosper in life and not through selling albinos' body parts."

There are about 150,000 albinos in the country, and more than 8,000 of them are registered with the TAS.

Some families kill albino babies upon birth, Tanzanian authorities say.

And authorities in Kenya and Burundi, where albino killings have also been reported in recent months, have started to give added protection.

Some reports say albino skin is prized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, another troubled African nation where superstition is high.[/b]

The shame of Africa is in the mind of many of her inhabitants!

With all their stupid superstitions:
1. They still use AK-47s to fight their wars (Why resort to guns when you can use juju/voodoo/bullshit to kill your enemies? Fools!)
2. They still print currency notes (Why not conjure the currency notes to just appear? Idiots!)
3. They still use cell phones (Why not talk into a pot of blood to communicate with others? Animals of Africa!)
4. They watch TV (Why not spread a white cloth on the ground, chant some meaningless gibberish and see far away places on the white cloth? Ignorance!)
5. They attend church (The most shameful part - using religion to fool people; their greedy pastors are flying $20 million private jets while the fools eat dead albinos. Tufiakwa!!!)

Exhume a dead albino baby's grave on Saturday night, and go to church on Sunday. With so many churches and Mosques in Tanzania, what are these religious institutions telling their members about killing albinos?

Religion, a man-made contraption to seek God, can never remove the innate stupidity in man.

I truly detest ignorant people!!!

Juju is one strong indicator that Africa is really backward. Many societies reserve magic/juju for purely children's entertainment, no, not in Africa. Juju remains the cornerstone of many Africa's ideology, negative and backward for ever.

naijaking1:

Juju is one strong indicator that Africa is really backward. Many societies reserve magic/juju for purely children's entertainment, no, not in Africa. Juju remains the cornerstone of many Africa's ideology, negative and backward for ever.

When you state this clearly and give myriad evidence of why juju is just fable, some Nigerians will bring God into the picture and try to make the following idiotic claim: If you believe in God then you must acknowledge that the Devil exists, hence juju is real.

The above argument is easily defeated by asking one question: George W. Bush is a born-again Christian, do you think he believes juju exists?

Basically, can they claim that the billions of Christians around the world who would laugh at some Nigerian that believes juju can stop the Earth's rotation or stop the high-velocity shell of an armored tank, don't believe in God?

Juju is a product of our culture; like every culture, there are tricksters and con men. Juju was just a con man's way of attracting confidence and entrenching fear in the minds of ignorant villagers. It is meaningless and has as much power as a bucket of nails.

I have profound respect for our traditional culture, however, like all cultures, tyrants sometimes seize the prevailing thoughts and manufacture lies to subdue the weak at heart. Those tyrants told our forefathers to kill twins, triplets, etc., sold some of them as slaves to the White man for a profit, and told them (our forefathers) that if they pointed their fingers at their (the tyrants) houses, their fingers would bend! (LOLZ! Anybody heard that crap while growing up?).

Too bad for those tyrants because their reign is over! A new generation of Nigerians, that can reason and see through the longest-running 419 in Nigeria's history, are growing up and would tear down those useless dirty shrines, used to perpetuate a culture of fear. Let those fools wear their juju vest and confront the kinetic energy of an RPG .

As long as a substantial percentage of sub-Saharan Africans believe in the fable of juju, Africa's position as the least developed, most backward continent on Earth is assured!

"India to lunch a lunar space mission" Even India--- the makers of the most potent charm are not going to the moon with juju, they are applying real science.
@Rickyblack, thanks I agree with you 100%.
I don't mind laughing about people being fooled by juju tricksters, but when they begin to demand body parts of albinos, twins, dwarfs, etc; it calls for an immediate action.

That's so sad, poor thing she didn't deserve to die like that, I wish people care for albino people, they're human just like everyone else! RIP

folem: The widespread discrimination of white-skinned albinos in Africa is the same as Racism.

do we have black skinned albino?
@topic. This is unhuman tho i have to admit i used to fear them .

Okijajuju1:
Albino?? For juju?? When?? How?? to which god??

Poor Albinos. First we were using twins, now Albinos, next will prolly be retards.

Retards will produce coins coins and counterfeit