Albino killings in Tanzania

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Albinos are being killed in Tanzania for their flesh and bones. This unimaginable horror is driven by the belief that the body parts of those people with albinism -the rate of this disorder is many times what it is in the U.S.- have potent magical powers if used in potions produced by local witchdoctors. At least 26 persons this year have been brutally murdered, their body parts hacked off, and the aforementioned remains sold to witchdoctors. Some recent reports from the BBC indicate that body parts are being exported from Tanzania to other parts of Africa and in one instance a Tanzanian trader on his way to The Democratic Republic of Congo has been caught with the severed head of an albino baby.

 

Sources:

 

BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7523796.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/200...lbinos_sl.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7148673.stm

 

New York Times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzIfK-_y5Js

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f1cf...d08ca128b1366b6

 

ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/28/2315971.htm

 

Al Jazeera:

 

European Parliament:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc...amp;language=EN

Edited September 26, 2008 by Deadly_Nightshade

[Walsingham]

I think it's about more than just muthi. If words goes around that X is rich enough and weird enough to use an albino in a ceremony to cement their power, then the ceremony has worked... No supernatural factors required.

[Meshugger]

Savages.

[Walsingham]

Savages.

 

That's the easy answer, but I would suggest it's overly simple. Africans are people, and in my experience are not much more 'savage' than you'll find in any country. That is, most 'savage' behaviour is carried out by a group or class of twits. The difference is only that unlike in Britain they aren't dressed in Burberry and aren't marginalised. They run the show because the non-twits are so badly organised.

[Gfted1]

I still cant believe there is that high of a percentage per capita of albinos in Tanzania. Must be some kind of localized genetic mutation.

[Gorgon]

They still believe in magic, black magic or otherwise. I dunno if that's more savage than believing in Jebus.

[Meshugger]

Savages.

 

That's the easy answer, but I would suggest it's overly simple. Africans are people, and in my experience are not much more 'savage' than you'll find in any country. That is, most 'savage' behaviour is carried out by a group or class of twits. The difference is only that unlike in Britain they aren't dressed in Burberry and aren't marginalised. They run the show because the non-twits are so badly organised.

 

They are savages because they still believe in witchcraft and other similar pre-christian practices. We in the west have moved on and are more refined. We have nukes, systematic torture with the best equipments, we commit genocide in the name of ideologies that have been sprung by the brightest minds that the universities have offered. We have impaled 20000-40000 turks just to prove that they aren't welcomed in walachia, and had wars that lasted 100 years in the name of who has the right to sit in a special chair in a special place.

 

They are simple and barbaric, since they are stuck in such ways that were abandoned thousands of years ago in the rest of the world. Get with the times.

[theslug]

I'm pretty sure someone already posted this, months ago.

[Xard]

I'm pretty sure someone already posted this, months ago.

 

Yup

 

 

it was very brave work by journalist who's responsible for this

 

I think she/he was from BBC

[Walsingham]

Savages.

 

That's the easy answer, but I would suggest it's overly simple. Africans are people, and in my experience are not much more 'savage' than you'll find in any country. That is, most 'savage' behaviour is carried out by a group or class of twits. The difference is only that unlike in Britain they aren't dressed in Burberry and aren't marginalised. They run the show because the non-twits are so badly organised.

 

They are savages because they still believe in witchcraft and other similar pre-christian practices. We in the west have moved on and are more refined. We have nukes, systematic torture with the best equipments, we commit genocide in the name of ideologies that have been sprung by the brightest minds that the universities have offered. We have impaled 20000-40000 turks just to prove that they aren't welcomed in walachia, and had wars that lasted 100 years in the name of who has the right to sit in a special chair in a special place.

 

They are simple and barbaric, since they are stuck in such ways that were abandoned thousands of years ago in the rest of the world. Get with the times.

 

Wait, does that mean we're engaged?