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Albino & Leucistic Humans (Pigmentation Deficiency)

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RE: The WeirdNJ site and publications ...

https://weirdnj.com


There is so much cool weird stuff on this site... from "Zip the What Is It", to Satanic sacrifice (supposedly) in abandoned mental hospitals, to monkey-men, to "experimental" cows with windows cut into the side of their stomachs :)confused:)...

On the "Earth Mysteries" side of things, there is also ... The Albino Village...

Embedded link is dead. The 'Albino Village' webpage was apparently discontinued years ago. No archived version containing any text was found.


On the current WeirdNJ site references to the 'Albino Village' can be found at:

https://weirdnj.com/stories/clinton-road/
(Mention of the 'Albino Village')

https://weirdnj.com/stories/essex-road/
(A separate UL about aggressive / murderous albinos on a different NJ road)

And especially ...

Small Wonders of Midgetville
https://weirdnj.com/stories/midgetville/

There is perhaps no more fabled place in our state than the mythical village of Midgetville. Spurred on by tales of this tiny town and its wee inhabitants, Weird NJ has visited at least half a dozen locations rumored to be the home of a colony of these vertically challenged individuals. ...

The most credible reports of Midgetville that we’ve investigated are probably the ones that center around a remote enclave of houses in the woods of Jefferson Township in northern Morris County. Though the houses are quite small, it is this community’s close proximity to the old Ringling Brothers’ Estate which really made us wonder whether we had at last found the true Midgetville we had so long sought. ...

In 1913 circus mogul Alfred T. Ringling purchased nearly 1000 acres of land in this section of Jefferson Township (then known as Petersburg) on which to build an estate and winter home for his performers (many of whom were little people) and his animals. Nestled between the Green Pond and Bowling Green Mountains, the estate proper consisted of 100 acres, with a stately 26-room stone mansion overlooking the grounds, barns and cobblestone elephant houses. ...

Upon Alfred’s death in 1919 the circus moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, then to Sarasota, Florida, its winter quarters to this day.


The actual Clifton NJ residential neighborhood most often associated with the Albino Village legend no longer exists.
Albino Village (Clifton, New Jersey)
A culdesac accessed through a brick arch tunnel that, long ago, was rumored to be home to a colony of Albinos. It was a big late-night spot and kids would go there to scare their dates. It was prominently featured in Weird NJ. The shantytown was slowly torn down int he 80's and replaced by larger duplex homes. In 2008, the whole neighborhood was torn down to make way for an expansion project for Route 3.
http://wikimapia.org/10062556/Albino-Village


The current WeirdNJ site also links to an audio podcast specifically focused on the legendary Albino Village:
It seems the lack of pigmentation in a person’s skin really freaks some people out. Perhaps for this reason one of the most fabled places in New Jersey lore is the land of Albino Village.

The legend dates back to the early 1900s, to an area of Clifton on the banks of the Passaic River once known as Frogtown. Rumors began to spread of an enclave of pigmentally impaired people who were shunned by society and chose to live on their own in the ramshackle shacks of Frogtown...
 
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OK, this is related to the human animal but the other day I saw a blonde haired lady with 2 albino children aged about 5 and 3.

Their Dad wasn't with them so I do not know if he is an albino but even if he is or isn't, whats the likely hood of having 2 albino offspring?
 
Saw an albino Negro,African,Black, whatever it's pc to call them these days.
 
Tyger Lily said:
OK, this is related to the human animal but the other day I saw a blonde haired lady with 2 albino children aged about 5 and 3.

Their Dad wasn't with them so I do not know if he is an albino but even if he is or isn't, whats the likely hood of having 2 albino offspring?
Well, since it's congenital, quite high.

That is, if you've had one, the chances are better than average that you'll have another. (Since it indicates that at least one - maybe both - parents have the requisite defect.)
 
I've seen a couple of albino blokes at work recently, one was so incredibly lacking in pigment the shadows in his hair were grey, it was like the hair parts of him had been photoshopped, he had to squint against the electric lighting and I didn't want to stare too hard to see what colour his eyes were. He was about early twenties in age. The other one didn't look quite so light haired but still had white hair on his head and face, he was slightly younger and didn't have so much trouble with the light.
 
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I saw an albino teenage chav today. I've seen albinos before but this girl really didn't help herself by wearing a white shell suit!
 
Albinos in Burundi flee killings

Albinos in Burundi have been taking refuge after three of them were killed by gangs apparently seeking to sell body parts in neighbouring Tanzania.

Four albinos were moved to a provincial centre on Thursday in Ruyigi, Burundi, where police were protecting them, the BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge reports.

Authorities have arrested six people in connection with the murder of an albino teenage girl in August.

The attacks follow the killing of 26 Tanzanian albinos in less than a year.

A BBC correspondent's investigation there revealed that witchdoctors were behind the killings.

They sought albino body parts for potions that they claimed could make people rich.

Two of the albinos killed in Burundi - a man and a teenage girl - were reportedly found dead with their legs and arms missing.

Police said the tip of the girl's tongue was also removed.

Neighbours of another teenage albino girl killed in Ruyigi in August chased away her attackers, six of whom were later apprehended as they came to retrieve her body parts.

They are said to have told police that they were planning to sell the body parts in Tanzania.

Our correspondent says that albinos in Burundi - estimated to number around 200 - are now living in fear for their lives.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/a ... 649420.stm
 
Tanzania 'healers' flout ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7851287.stm

Tanzania's only albino MP has been trying to fight prejudice
Traditional healers in Tanzania are defying a government ban announced on Friday, intended to stop the killings of people with albinism for ritual medicine.

A BBC correspondent has seen at least 10 healers working openly.

It comes days after the latest murder of an albino man in Tanzania brought the national death toll to at least 40 since mid-2007.

The killers reportedly sell albino body parts - including limbs, hair, skin and genitals - to witchdoctors.

Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said on Friday the government was revoking the licences of all traditional healers with immediate effect.

Leg chopped off

"These witchdoctors are big liars," he said at a rally in the northern Shinyanga region.

But the BBC's Vicky Ntetema said it was business as usual for the traditional healers she visited on Monday just outside the biggest city Dar es Salaam.

I believe it would have been better if the PM had consulted us before announcing the ban

Haruna Kifimbo
Traditional healer

A spokesman for a traditional healers' association has criticised the ban.

Arusha-based herbalist Haruna Kifimbo told the Citizen newspaper: "We are legally registered, they should be dealing with some state organs who have not done much to stop the wave of albino killings."

He claimed members of his association were offering services to more than 30% of the country's population.

"We have so many patients and clients who depend on us," he told the Citizen. "I believe it would have been better if the PM had consulted us before announcing the ban."

In the most recent case last Wednesday an albino man - named as Jonas Maduka - was killed in Sogoso village in the north-western Mwanza region.

He was reportedly eating dinner at home when some people called and asked for his help.

When he went outside he was strangled, before his assailants chopped off his leg and made away with the limb.

The Tanzanian authorities have arrested more than 90 people in recent months - including four police officers - on suspicion of killing albinos or of trading in their body parts.

There are thought to be more than 200,000 albinos in the country, which has a total population of 40 million.

The killings have spread to neighbouring states, with at least one albino murder each in Burundi and Kenya last year.
 
Tanzania illegal healers arrested
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7906645.stm

Three traditional healers in northern Tanzania have been arrested for defying a government ban issued last month.

It was meant to stop killings of people with albinism for ritual medicine.

Their arrest follows charges against a pastor, who was allegedly found in south-western Tanzania in possession of the body parts of an albino.

The BBC's Vicky Ntetema in Dar es Salaam says this case is blow to people with albinism, some of whom have been seeking refugee in churches.

The pastor - Cosmas Mwasenga - was arrested in the Mbeya region and faces the death penalty if found guilty.

The three traditional healers had been travelling around the northern district of Serengeti in a car using a public address system to let their clients know that they were still open for business.

Their arrests come days after the murder of a 14-year-old albino girl in the northern Mwanza region, bringing the national death toll to 45 since mid-2007.

The killers reportedly sell albino body parts - including limbs, hair, skin and genitals - to witchdoctors to make potions that purport to make people wealthy.

Our reporter says more than 200 people - including witchdoctors, their clients, hired killers and some of the victims' relatives - have been arrested in connection with the killings in the last year.

No-one has so far been convicted, she says.

There are thought to be more than 200,000 albinos in the country, which has a total population of 40 million.
 
Tanzanians to name albino killers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7918960.stm

Many people with albinism are living in fear in Tanzania
Tanzania is launching a nationwide exercise urging the public to identify those behind dozens of murders of people with albinism.

In the secret "referendum", citizens will be invited to write down on slips of paper the names of those they suspect of involvement.

Legal officials will gather the names and pass them to the police.

President Jakaya Kikwete said the public should not fear retribution for naming the culprits.

The killers reportedly sell albino body parts - including limbs, hair, skin and genitals - to witchdoctors who make potions promising to make people wealthy.

In the past 15 months, 45 albinos have been slaughtered in Tanzania.

'Political ploy'

But there are concerns the process could be flawed and lead to accusations against innocent people.

Edmund Sengondo Mvungi, a law lecturer at Dar es Salaam University, told the BBC News website: "When you invite people to accuse their neighbours of such a serious crime, you give them the opportunity to settle scores.
People should feel free to name those who are behind these barbaric killings and other criminal acts within their localities

President Jakaya Kikwete

"This shouldn't be subjected to a vote-like process. It's a political ploy to please those who say the government is not doing enough to solve these murders."

President Kikwete announced the nationwide exercise during his end of the month speech on Saturday.

It will start within the next fortnight in the Lake Zone regions of Mwanza, Kagera, Mara and Shinyanga - where 44 out of the 45 albino murders have taken place.

Superstitious miners and fishermen in the region hoping to get rich quick have been accused of fuelling the demand for the potions.

The exercise will then continue in phases throughout the southern highlands, central, western, eastern, and northern regions, said the president.

"Our idea is to ensure the problem is eliminated and the country's image to the international community is cleansed," Mr Kikwete said on national TV.

"People should feel free to name those who are behind these barbaric killings and other criminal acts within their localities."

Boasting

Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, who recently wept in parliament as he bewailed the albino murders, is to launch the campaign.

The BBC's Vicky Ntetema in Dar es Salaam says it is not clear how effective the exercise will be in a society which believes in witchcraft and whose confidence in the legal system is wearing thin.

A recent BBC investigation found some witchdoctors openly boasting that they were working with the police.

Our reporter says more than 200 people - including alleged witchdoctors, their clients, hired killers and some of the victims' relatives - have been arrested in connection with the killings in the last year.

No-one has so far been convicted, she says.

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week decried the albino killings during his official visit to the country.

Last week, in neighbouring Burundi, assailants reportedly dismembered a six-year-old albino boy in his home in front of his parents, the eighth albino killing in that country.

The government issued a ban on all traditional healers in January in an effort to stop the killings and several have been arrested since then on suspicion of flouting the order.

Last month, a pastor was charged in Tanzania with being found in possession of the body parts of an albino.
 
Jail over Burundi albino murders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8166273.stm

Witchdoctors claim potions made from albinos bring luck and love
One person has been sentenced to life in prison and eight others to jail in Burundi over the murder of albinos whose remains were sold for witchcraft.

Three other suspects were acquitted by the court in Ruyigi province over the the killings of at least 12 albinos.

The victims were mutilated and their body parts sold in neighbouring Tanzania for use in potions.

In addition to the killing of albinos in Burundi, more than 40 have been killed in Tanzania.

In addition to the life sentence, those convicted were jailed for between one and 15 years.

The trial is believed to be the first linked to a spate of albino killings in East Africa since 2007.

Witchdoctors in the region claim potions made with albino body parts will bring those who use them luck in love, life and business.

An association campaigning for the rights of albinos in Burundi says the authorities are now taking the killings seriously, but more needs to be done.

At least 200 people have been arrested over the trade in Tanzania, but none has been convicted.
 
Meet the black Brazilian mother who has three white children
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:10 AM on 02nd September 2009

A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children.
Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos.

Genetics professor Valdir Balbino of the Federal University of Pernambuco said this is a very rare occurrence considering the parents and two other children are black.

The family live in the slum of Olinda in north-east Brazil and the children have faced taunts by fellow pupils at their school.

The condition affects around one in 17,000 people. Those with albiinism do not produce enough melanin pigment, which gives colour to the skin, hair and eyes and protects the body from the sun's rays.

They often suffer from extreme short-sightedness and a severe sensitivity to light.
Mrs Fernandes, 27,says she struggles to pay the medical bills for daughters Ruth, 10, and Esthefany, eight, as well as five-year-old son Kauan.
She must also buy expensive sun-block and extra clothing to protect their skin.
The mother of five has also been challenged by security guards who insisted she could not be the children's mother.
Mrs Fernandes, of Olinda, said: 'I'm afraid of skin cancer because I can't afford the protection they need.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... z0PxAhPJNm
 
Death for Tanzania albino killers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8270446.stm

Albino people live in fear in Tanzania and Burundi
A court in north-western Tanzania has sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old albino boy.

They were found guilty of attacking Matatizo Dunia and severing his legs in Bukombe district in Shinyanga province.

Albino body parts are used in potions sold by witchdoctors promising wealth. Tanzania has seen an unprecedented rise in the killings in recent years.

Dozens of people have been arrested, but the justice system is notoriously slow and this is the first conviction.

There are 50 other cases of killings of albino people before the courts.

The Tanzanian government has publicly stated its desire to end the killings.

In March, President Jakaya Kikwete called on Tanzanians to come forward with any information they might have.

In July a court in neighbouring Burundi sentenced one person to life in prison and eight others to jail for the murder of albino people whose remains were sold in Tanzania.

There are estimated to be about 17,000 albino people living in Tanzania. They lack pigment in their skin and appear pale.
 
Albino killers 'should be hanged'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8273139.stm

Albino people live in fear in Tanzania and Burundi
The Tanzania Albino Society (Tas) has called for the men found guilty of killing an albino boy to be hanged publicly as a warning to others.

A court sentenced them to death for attacking the boy and severing his legs for use in witchdoctors' potions.

The BBC's John Ngahyoma in Dar es Salaam says there are more than 100 people on death row, but no-one has been executed in more than 15 years.

But Tas chairman Ernest Kimaya urged the president to endorse the sentence.

"I want other perpetrators to learn - seeing is believing," he told the BBC.

Mr Kimaya told Tanzania's Citizen newspaper that a public execution would also "show that the government is serious in its war on albino killers".

In the past two years, 53 albino people have been murdered in Tanzania.

Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale, are killed because potions made from their body parts are believed to bring good luck and wealth.

The Tanzanian government has publicly stated its desire to end the killings.

In March, President Jakaya Kikwete called on Tanzanians to come forward with any information they might have.

Reprisal fears

Officials banned witchdoctors from practising, however many have continued to work.





Living in fear: Tanzania's albinos
In hiding for exposing witchdoctors
Many of Tanzania's estimated 17,000 albino people are now living in fear, especially in villages in the north-west where the majority of the murders have occurred.

The case in Kahama on Wednesday was the first conviction in Tanzania for an albino killing.

Correspondents say there is also a fear of reprisal killings as witchdoctors and their clients wield a lot of power in their communities.

Witchdoctors in Tanzania and other parts of East Africa have made tens of thousands of dollars from selling potions and other items made from the bones, hair, skin and genitals of dead albino people.

They pay a lot of money for body parts.

In July a court in neighbouring Burundi sentenced one person to life in prison and eight others to jail for the murder of albino people whose remains were sold in Tanzania.
 
Albino killers get death penalty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8338838.stm

Albino people in a safe haven in Tanzania, 01/09
Albino people live in fear throughout Tanzania

Four Tanzanians have been sentenced to death by hanging for killing an albino man last year - one of a spate of such murders in the country.

The court, in the northern town of Shinyanga, convicted them of murdering the man and removing his head and legs.

In September three men were sentenced to death for murdering an albino boy - the first such ruling in Tanzania.

Witchdoctors sell good-luck potions made from the body parts of albino people for thousands of dollars.

More than 50 albino people are thought to have been murdered in the past two years in Tanzania.

Analysts say thousands of albino people are now living in fear, especially in villages in the north-west where the majority of the murders have occurred.

The killings have also spread to neighbouring Burundi, where at least 12 people have been murdered.

The BBC's Eric Nampesya in Shinyanga says many Tanzanians are happy with the ruling because they believe it is sending a message that such killings will not be tolerated.

But he says some are questioning whether there is a bigger network of criminals behind the killings - and they want those who deal in body parts to be punished.

The four men are expected to appeal against their sentence, our reporter says.
 
Rise in African children accused of witchcraft
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10671790

Albino children in Tanzania (file photo)
A wide range of children are at risk

An increasing number of children are being accused of witchcraft in parts of Africa, the UN children's agency says.

Orphans, street children, albinos and the disabled are most at risk.

A new Unicef report warns that children accused of being witches - some as young as eight - have been been burned, beaten and even killed as punishment.

The belief that a child could be a witch is a relatively modern development, researchers say.

Until 10-20 years ago, it was women and the elderly who tended to be accused.

The agency says the rise in vulnerable children being abused in this way is linked to greater urbanisation in the continent and disruption caused by war.

The growing economic burden of raising children is also thought to be a factor.

The agency said there was little it could do about the belief in witchcraft itself, and that it was not trying to eradicate the practice. But it said violence against children was wrong, and that it would do everything it could to stop it.
'Major problem'

Most of those accused of witchcraft are boys aged between eight to 14 - who often end up being attacked, tortured and sometimes killed.
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The children would be forced to admit being witches and then asked to tell the accusers who passed on the witchcraft to them”

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Also, children have had petrol poured into their eyes or ears as a way of trying to exorcise "evil spirits" that healers believe have possessed them.

It is reported that some evangelical preachers have added to the problem by charging large sums for exorcisms. One was recently arrested in Nigeria after charging more than $250 for each procedure.

There has been no comprehensive study to suggest how widespread child witchcraft allegations are.

However Unicef's Regional Child Protection officer for West and Central Africa told the BBC more than 20,000 streetchildren had been accused of witchcraft in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa.

Joaquim Theis told the Newshour programme that such children had often been beaten and sent away from their homes.

"The children would be forced to admit being witches and then asked to tell the accusers who passed on the witchcraft to them."

Mr Theis said reintegrating affected children remained a "major problem"
 
Burundi albino boy 'dismembered'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11614957

Albino people in a safe haven in Tanzania, 01/09 Albinos in Tanzania have become targets for body-snatchers seeking to sell them to witch doctors

The dismembered body of a young albino boy has been found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border, reports say.

The boy, aged nine, was taken from Makamba province in Burundi by a gang that crossed the border, the head of Burundi's albino association said.

Kassim Kazungu told AFP the remains had been recovered from the Malagarazi river and given a formal burial.

Albino body parts are prized in parts of Africa, with witch-doctors claiming they have special powers.
Continue reading the main story
Related stories

* In hiding for exposing witch-doctors
* Living in fear: Tanzania's albinos
* Kenyan held in albino sale sting

Mr Kazungu told the AFP news agency that Tanzanian police had arrested five people, although there was no official confirmation from Tanzania.

In Tanzania, the body parts of people living with albinism are used by witch-doctors for potions which they tell clients will help make them rich or healthy.

Dozens of albinos have been killed, and the killings have spread to neighbouring Burundi.

In August a court in Tanzania sentenced a Kenyan accused of trying to sell an albino to 17 years in jail and a fine of more than $50,000 (£41,200).

Tanzanian authorities have promised to crack down on albino traffickers, and several people have been sentenced to death in connection with killings.
 
UN's Navi Pillay condemns Tanzania attacks on albinos
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21675536

Salum Khalfani Bar'wani became the first Tanzanian with albinism to be elected an MP in 2010

The UN human rights chief has condemned a recent spate of "horrific attacks" on people with albinism in Tanzania, including the murder of a young boy.

The government should act to stop the "vicious killings" and discrimination they faced, said Navi Pillay.

The mutilation and murder of people with albinism is often linked to witchcraft, the UN says.

Only five people have been convicted in Tanzania since 2000 for killing people with albinism, it adds.

Some 72 people have been killed in that time.

In 2009, President Jakaya Kiwete said the murders had brought shame to Tanzania and launched a national campaign to end the persecution of people with albinism.

'Arm hacked off'
In 2010, Salum Khalfani Bar'wani became the first person with albinism to be elected as an MP in Tanzania.

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People with albinism have the right to start living, like anyone else, without fear of being killed or dismembered”

Navi Pillay
UN human rights chief
In a statement, Ms Pillay said four attacks on Tanzanians with albinism had been documented in just 16 days between the end of January and mid-February. They included:

the murder of a seven-year-old boy, Lugolola Bunzari, on 31 January at Kanunge village in the Tabora region. His attackers slashed his forehead, right arm and left shoulder, and chopped off his left arm just above the elbow. The boy's grandfather, aged 95, was also killed in the attack as he tried to protect his grandson;
a seven-month-old baby, Makunga Baraka, narrowly escaped death on 5 February after armed men attacked his home in the Simiyu region. Villagers chased the attackers away and surrounded the house to protect him. The baby and his mother were taken to the police station the following morning and given temporary sanctuary;
a 39-year-old woman Maria Chambanenge was attacked on 11 February by five armed men, allegedly including her husband, in Mkowe village in the Rukwa region. They hacked off her left arm while she was sleeping with two of her four children. The five suspects were subsequently arrested and the victim's arm recovered - their trial is reportedly under way
a 10-year-old boy, Mwigulu Matonange, was attacked on his way home from school and his left arm chopped off above the elbow by two unidentified men in Msia village in Rukwa. Three men have been arrested in connection with the attack.
"These crimes are abhorrent. People with albinism have the right to start living, like anyone else, without fear of being killed or dismembered," Ms Pillay said.

Tanzania's authorities needed to step up efforts to bring the attackers to justice, she added.

Public awareness campaigns should also be launched to end the stigma associated with albinism, Ms Pillay said.

"I am deeply alarmed by the general discrimination and social exclusion many people with albinism suffer, as a result of their skin colour, not just in Tanzania but in other countries as well," she said.

Some witchdoctors say that magic charms are more powerful if they contain body parts from people with albinism - this has led to a lucrative criminal trade in these body parts.
 
Tanzanian witch doctors arrested over albino killing

This image courtesy of the Milliyet Daily shows women carrying their albino children on 5 May 2014, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Albinos in Tanzania have become targets for body-snatchers seeking to sell them to witch doctors

Two witch doctors in Tanzania have been arrested after a woman with albinism was hacked to death, police say.

One of her legs and several fingers were removed in the attack on Tuesday.

Albinos have suffered widespread persecution in Tanzania, where witch doctors say magic potions made with albino body parts can bring good luck.

Such killings have declined in recent years, but this latest attack has prompted a human rights group to call for all witch doctors to be banned.

At a press conference on Wednesday, the group, Under The Same Sun said the current regulation of witch doctors was clearly not working.

The BBC's Leonard Mubali in Dar es Salaam says that currently all witch doctors have to apply for a certificate from the ministry of health and welfare to practise.

The attack occurred in the village of Gasuma, in Simiyu province - a remote rural area in the north-west of the country where there have been killings of albinos before, our reporter says.

The woman's left leg, two fingers from her left hand and a nail from one of her thumbs were removed.

According to Under the Same Sun, which campaigns against the discrimination of people living with albinism, the last killing of an albino in Tanzania was in February 2013.

In recent years, the government has been also been trying to address the problem, and an albino MP was appointed several years ago.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27409965
 
People with albinism face prejudice and death in Tanzania. A new campaign is now being launched to end hostility towards the tiny community of about 30,000. BBC Africa's Salim Kikeke met some of them.

Mtobi Namigambo, a fisherman by trade, sits calmly on a stool outside his mud house in Ukerewe island.

Once a sanctuary for albinos, this is no longer the case. His four-year-old son, May Mosi, who has albinism, sits on his lap. Showing off his newly learnt skills, May counts from one to 10, confidently.

Mr Namigambo occasionally throws a glance at his wife, Sabina, who is seated on a mat at his feet preparing the family's evening meal. Their other two children are playing nearby. They also have a newborn baby, sleeping inside the house.

When May was three months old, he escaped an attempted kidnap.

"I had gone to the lake to fish. They were all alone in the house when the attackers struck," Mr Namigambo tells me. "My wife jumped out of the window and ran to safety with May, leaving the two children behind, who were not harmed at all." ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30394260
 
Tanzanian police said on Wednesday they had found the mutilated body of a one-year-old albino boy whose abduction renewed calls for tougher action to stop the killing of albinos for their body parts.

An armed gang snatched Yohana Bahati from his mother at their home in northwestern Tanzania's Geita region on Sunday, a month after the government announced a nationwide ban on witch doctors, who are accused of encouraging attacks on albinos.

He was the second albino child in two months to be abducted in the Lake zone of Tanzania. A four-year-old girl who was kidnapped in December is still missing. ...

http://www.independent.ie/world-new...t-found-dead-with-limbs-severed-31003296.html
 
Police in Malawi have been ordered to shoot anyone attacking or abducting albinos in a bid to curb the killing of those affected by the condition.

At least 15 albinos, mainly children, have reportedly been wounded, abducted or killed in East Africa over the past six months with a marked increase seen in Malawi, Tanzania and Burundi.

Their body parts are desired by witch doctors for use in black magic potions and spells, said to bring love, luck and wealth.

UN officials said that at least six attacks on albinos were reported in Malawi in the first 10 weeks of 2015 compared to four incidents over the past four years. They warned gangs have begun roaming the southern district of Machinga on the hunt for victims. ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ttacking-albinos-for-body-parts-10164571.html
 
Malawi killers of teenager with albinism jailed
Posted at11:105 May
Two men have been sentenced to 25 years in prison in Malawi for a murdering a 17-year-old with albinism for his body parts, the local Nyasa Times newspaper reports.

The magistrate showed the court gruesome pictures of how Davis Fletcher Machinjiri was butchered by Vuto Biswick and Emmanuel Robert, who then took his body parts to Mozambique to sell.

Witch-doctors say potions made with the body parts of people with albinism can bring good luck and wealth - a perception that governments and campaigners are battling to change in African states affected by such killings.

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-36175414
 
The albino who confronted a witchdoctor
By Vibeke Venema BBC World Service

Stephane Ebongue fled Cameroon because of the colour of his skin - his albinism made him a target for those who believe such people have special powers. Years later he returned home to confront a witchdoctor, and to question him about the practice of using human body parts in "magic" potions.

Stephane Ebongue stands nervously at the edge of a forest trail, dressed in a suit and carrying a briefcase. His dark sunglasses are a necessity because he has albinism, but they also hide his nervousness. "My heart is beating fast. I have never come to a place like this before," he says.

This is the day he hopes to find answers he has spent years searching for. The trail leads to a witchdoctor who trades in albino potions.

"I would like to find out why albinos keep getting killed. Maybe the secret lies at the end of this path," he says.

Ebongue is a journalist, a rational man who deals in facts. He does not believe in magic, yet he is deeply unsettled about this meeting. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36131711
 
On a Thursday night in early March, a Malawian man named Gilbert Daire was woken by the sound of people trying to drill through his wall. He was convinced that hunters had come to kill him for his body parts.

When his wife screamed, neighbors came to help and fended off the attackers. But Daire no longer feels safe in the streets or at home. He worries that the hunters will return. ...

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-malawi-albinos-hunted-2017-story.html
 
Another savage murder of an albino boy.

A teenage albino boy has reportedly been killed and dismembered in Burundi.

An albino rights group said the 15-year-old’s body was found late on Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.

“The young albino was killed atrociously … his murderers cut his right leg off at the knee, his right arm and his tongue,” said Kassim Kazungu, the head of Albinos Without Borders.

Previous albino killings in the African country have been linked to people practising witchcraft.

More than 20 albino people have been killed in Burundi since 2008.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/burundi-albino-killings-witchcraft-dismembered-africa-a9064441.html
 
Another savage murder of an albino boy.

A teenage albino boy has reportedly been killed and dismembered in Burundi.

An albino rights group said the 15-year-old’s body was found late on Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.

“The young albino was killed atrociously … his murderers cut his right leg off at the knee, his right arm and his tongue,” said Kassim Kazungu, the head of Albinos Without Borders.

Previous albino killings in the African country have been linked to people practising witchcraft.

More than 20 albino people have been killed in Burundi since 2008.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/burundi-albino-killings-witchcraft-dismembered-africa-a9064441.html
And this type of brutal torture - murder is supposed to rid the albino's of demons - evil spirits. Sounds more likely the bunch who perpetrated the horrible crime are possessed.
 
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