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Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Amoxman(m): 1:48pm On Jul 16, 2019
Families are said to be trading in their own loved ones in a bid for money and influence from some of the country’s most powerful people.

It is believed in the African country that albino body parts will bring a person wealth or luck, with people willing to pay as much as $3,000 to $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 for the whole body, the MailOnline reports.

As a result, people with albinism are often attacked by people who wish to chop off their limbs, leaving them mutilated, or in many cases, dead.

Albinism affects one in 1,400 people in Tanzania, which experts put down to incest in rural communities in the country.

It is a hereditary condition which causes the complete absence of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes.

Since records began, there have been 74 murders, with 59 people with albinism surviving attacks, while 16 graves have been robbed for body parts, however there are believed to be many more unrecorded.
The most recent case recorded was four-year-old Pendo Emmanuelle Nundi, who was abducted from her home in December. Her father and uncle were both arrested in connection with her disappearance, however even with a reward of £1,130 offered up by police, she still hasn’t been found.

Mwigulu Matonange was only 10 when he was attacked by two men on his way home from school. The men chopped off his left arm, before disappearing into the jungle.

After the brutal attack, which took place in February 2014, he told IPP Media: ‘I was held down like a goat about to be slaughtered.’

In this case, the men were complete strangers to Mwiglulu, however there’s suspicion surrounding Pendo’s father after he took half-an-hour to report her abduction, despite there being neighbours around who could’ve helped as soon as she was taken.

According to a UN report, a 38-year-old woman was attacked by her husband and four other men while she was sleeping in February 2013 while their eight-year-old daughter looked on.

As reported by the MailOnline, Josephat Torner, who campaigns for albino rights, asked:

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?

You do not know who is your enemy.

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?


Source @unilad.com
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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by yrex01(m): 1:49pm On Jul 16, 2019
cry

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Nobody: 2:06pm On Jul 16, 2019
Africa is a shìt hole continent.


Modified:

For the record, I am sad people liked this comment.
But it's what it is.

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by dominique(f): 3:12pm On Jul 16, 2019
But why are Africans like this? sad

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by slyfox35(m): 3:15pm On Jul 16, 2019
Backward Continent, A continent that could turn Gods own people "the isrealites" into slaves, what do you expect

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by tobtap: 3:44pm On Jul 16, 2019
dis is madness... y rituals in africa... we need reorientation

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by dynicks(m): 3:44pm On Jul 16, 2019
Una sure say Africa as a continent go get sense?...local man looks shocked nd speechless...

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by freemanbubble: 3:44pm On Jul 16, 2019
Okay
Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Doglove91: 3:44pm On Jul 16, 2019
This isn't right. Oh Lord in heaven, who then should we trust if your creations are against each other. SAVE US OH LORD!!!! cry cry cry cry cry

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by OBAGADAFFI: 3:44pm On Jul 16, 2019
AFRICANS with their dark minds.

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by generalwo(m): 3:44pm On Jul 16, 2019
Africa at it again

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by czarina(f): 3:45pm On Jul 16, 2019
In 2019?

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by toydee(m): 3:45pm On Jul 16, 2019
I just hope the madness doesn't get here..

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Dididrumz(m): 3:45pm On Jul 16, 2019
This wan serious ohhh lipsrsealed

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by GlorifiedTunde(m): 3:45pm On Jul 16, 2019
Oh Africa!

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Sijo01(f): 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
shocked shocked
Have mercy Lord

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by MobilityExpress: 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
So much evil in Africa. Later some people will label white people as racists, when the truth is we are our own worst enemies and worst oppressors.

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Olamigenius(m): 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
Inside Life

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by IME1: 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
cry(
What a continent
My God please save and protect albinos all over the world, amen, let them smile and live free

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by olatilldend: 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
Madness and stupidity!

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Nobody: 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
No be today e start na, I saw it on the news years ago. Even bald headed men are being hunted by ritualists in Mozambique, it is said their head is filled with money.

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Judolisco(m): 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
If Donald trump talk now una go dey yab am

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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by oyeb15: 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2019
Too bad.
Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by naijjaman(m): 3:47pm On Jul 16, 2019
It doesn't get sadder than evil of these years.
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Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by Mogajunior(m): 3:47pm On Jul 16, 2019
Please who knows the whereabout of ANTIBITRUS.
Re: Albinos In Tanzania Are Being Hunted For Their Limbs by katheeroh: 3:47pm On Jul 16, 2019
This is so wrong!


So someone cannot come in this world in peace again .


This is a shallow way of thinking.

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