"uh oh"
Posted on 11/17/2008 2:19:50 PM PST by BlackVeil
A six-year-old albino girl in Burundi has been found dead with her head and limbs removed, in the latest killing linked to ritual medicine. Albinos in the region have been targeted because of a belief peddled by witchdoctors that their body parts can be used for magic potions. The girl, who was attacked on Sunday, was the sixth person with albinism to be killed in Burundi since September. There have also been a number of attacks in neighbouring Tanzania. ...The head of the Burundi Albinos' Association, Kasim Kazungu, says people with albinism had not suffered any discrimination until other Burundians heard about the lucrative trade in albino body parts in neighbouring Tanzania. Last week, police in south-western Tanzania arrested a man who was attempting to sell his albino wife to Congolese traders. Two mothers in western Tanzania were also attacked with machetes after gangs failed to find their albino children.
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Words fail me. Let’s send these barbarians more “aid”....?
I suppose this kind of thing occurs in the entire country of Africa.....
(sarcastic remark a dig at the Palin detractors, not at Palin)
Just a short hop across Lake Victoria from Kenya, birthplace of the Messiah.
There's an association for everything now.
Note to self: I’m not an albino, but I’m close enough. So, stay out of Africa.
Just drop a bunch of flyers saying that witch doctor body parts are medicinal then sit back and watch.
She was too white ...
Note to Edgar and Johnny Winter, don’t go to Africa.
These people are lower than animals.
He is white because of hydroquinone treatments to excess.
Here is one of the majors in the business
Ghana XXX-0153299-4 1 28
N. P. Gandour-CI
Abidjan , GH NYK-DO
66VCS99 Eclat Gel Milk 350 ML ( Hydroquiinone)
10-MAR-2008
Much lower. In a documentary on ritual killings in Nigeria, people were explaining that the murders are often very prolonged, because it is believed that the screams of the victim draw spirits close, and make the spells more powerful.
My wife and sister-in-law both have albinism and they have been following this stuff.
Thanks
FMCDH(BITS)
Ah yes.....
All cultures are equal.
Divesity is our strength...
Multi-culturalism enhances society..
Bull squat....
The other white meat.
This just awful.
Reminiscent of when the Ringling Brothers Circus was stranded in same place, and many of the performers were eaten by cannibals.
Just after the clown was eaten, one of the cannibals was heard to say that something he just ate “tasted funny.”
Ba-da-dum. Thank you. I will be here all week.
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