Beneath the blazing East Africa sun Chikumbutzo Massina gazes hollow eyed across the baked and barren ground where his brother Fletcher once tended his tomato crop. Any plants that remain are withered and brown.
‘This can be a spot where I spotted Fletcher’s blood trail,’ he says, his voice devoid of emotion, as he moves further across the field.
‘And this can be a ridge where I came across what was left of his mutilated body.’

In a monotone he tells how he found bit more than his brother’s torso: all limbs have been chopped off with a machete, his genitals cut off, his teeth torn out and all his vital organs – brain, liver, heart, lungs and kidneys – gone.
For Chikumbutzo, Fletcher’s brutal murder has barely yet registered. But one gets the impression from his dazed expression he has long known it was only a matter of time before his brother, an Albino, was killed.
In Malawi, where in actuality the condition is more common than almost anywhere in the world, witch doctors hire ‘hit men’from on the list of impoverished rural communities to murder then mutilate sufferers to allow them to use their organs for ‘medicines’which can be sold at huge prices.

Their bodies are believed to contain ‘healing properties’and can increase wealth and influence. It’s common for attacks to boost shortly before elections in rural areas.
Now, in an important new investigative documentary on BBC2, one British doctor who has Albinism himself, has uncovered the real extent of this barbaric practice and shone a spotlight on this shocking trade in human body parts.
Dr Oscar Duke, 30, an NHS doctor in London explores why these terrible crimes are occurring and who’s responsible.

He visits Tanzania’s ‘protectorates’where children with albinism and teenagers are housed in squalid conditions and protected by armed guards.
In a nation where over fifty percent the populace believes in witch craft these potions are bought as charms to win riches or influence.
A single one, created from the organs and limbs of albinos, can sell for 20m shillings, around £7,000 in sterling.

And these is definitely an impoverished country, the place where a land worker is lucky to earn 200,000 shillings (£72) annually, and malnutrition is rife.
In Malawi, where a lot more than 70 Albinos have been attacked, abducted or murdered previously couple of years, the situation is even more perilous, leading one UN expert about them to warn that Albinos could eventually become extinct in East Africa.
Malawi’s problem that has been exported from across the border, in neighbouring Tanzania, which has one of the highest rates of albinism in the world.

Source: http://www.newspaperupdate.com/witch-doctors-now-hires-hit-men-kill-albino/