You know it's hard to be albino in Tanzania?
Body parts from people with albinism are removed to make charms and spells that witch doctors claim bring good luck and wealth. The body parts sell for around $600 (£389) in Tanzania, with an entire corpse fetching $75,000 (£48,619), according to the UN.
The UN has warned that such attacks are increasing ahead of elections in Tanzania in October, with politicians turning to witch doctors to improve their luck.
The country banned witchcraft in December in an attempt to prevent attacks and kidnappings. But Vicky Ntetema, executive director of Under The Same Sun, a Canadian nonprofit organisation working to defend people with albinism, criticized political leaders for failing to intensify the effort.
A US survey in 2010 found that while most people in Tanzania are Christian or Muslim, 93% said they believed in witchcraft.
Here are two that escaped machettes, so far.
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Here's one baby that didn't (be aware it's a photo of dead baby with sliced off hands and legs) so it's only clickable photo
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7kOY4xedevo/VO...9443_n.jpg
Body parts from people with albinism are removed to make charms and spells that witch doctors claim bring good luck and wealth. The body parts sell for around $600 (£389) in Tanzania, with an entire corpse fetching $75,000 (£48,619), according to the UN.
The UN has warned that such attacks are increasing ahead of elections in Tanzania in October, with politicians turning to witch doctors to improve their luck.
The country banned witchcraft in December in an attempt to prevent attacks and kidnappings. But Vicky Ntetema, executive director of Under The Same Sun, a Canadian nonprofit organisation working to defend people with albinism, criticized political leaders for failing to intensify the effort.
A US survey in 2010 found that while most people in Tanzania are Christian or Muslim, 93% said they believed in witchcraft.
Here are two that escaped machettes, so far.
Here's one baby that didn't (be aware it's a photo of dead baby with sliced off hands and legs) so it's only clickable photo
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7kOY4xedevo/VO...9443_n.jpg
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
