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4 get death sentences for killing albino
Lucca Haule, assistant commissioner of police, said the four killed a 50-year-old man in Shinyaga, CNN reported. Haule said seven people have been sentenced to hang this year for killing a total of 50 albinos, some of them children.
Franck Alphonse, head of the Tanzania Albino Center, said about 200,000 albinos live in Tanzania. He said the number of killings has risen recently.
"People believe that albino body parts mixed with traditional medicine can make people rich," Alphonse said. "It is a thriving business: Witch doctors are asking business people to bring the body parts of albinos, who are not considered human beings."
The center provides housing and other benefits for albinos, including medicine to prevent skin cancer. Alphonse said many albinos do not go to school because of harassment, leaving them ill-prepared to support themselves.
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This news arrived on: 11/07/2009
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11-11-2009 07:12
wrote:
Leslee there is no atonement!
11-10-2009 14:06
Leslee in Canada wrote:
They should actually take a page out of Gandhi's actions: force the killers to support the Albino community for the rest of their lives in atonement.
If the perps are put to death, what have they learned?
If the perps are put to death, what have they learned?
11-07-2009 20:53
mockNbird wrote:
Albinos
That has to be the most astonishingly ignorant thing I have ever heard of in the 21st Century. Those people are a waste of oxygen. Are they the missing links or something? I am glad the government is taking this seriously. The executions should be very public and include any of the local witch doctors that are profiting over this horror.
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