Death Toll Grows for African Albinos Hunted for Witch Doctors’ Brews

[CelticViking]

In 2009 Mariamu Staford, a Tanzanian woman in her mid-20s, was sleeping in her hut when a group of men broke in and chopped off her arms. In the shadow of the Rwandan genocide and perennial war in Congo, where violence against women has become so common as to be considered a war tactic, Staford’s story is sadly less shocking than it might be.


But Staford wasn’t attacked for tribalism, demoralization or sex. She has albinism, a medical condition in which the body produces little or no pigment that exists in every ethnic group throughout the world. In East Africa albinos’ limbs are highly valued — often fetching thousands of dollars on the black market — by witch doctors who use the bones in potions they sell to those who think they bring prosperity.


Since 2007 in Tanzania, 64 people with albinism have been murdered for their body parts. Fourteen others have been mutilated....

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...doctors-brews/

[Gaztelu]

Another day in Africa. . .

[zack]

We should help save our white brothers up

[Odin]

[Rumata]

God sent the white man to Africa to punish negros for albino mistreatment. True.

[JamesBond007]

Who needs modern nosological scientific medicine ? All ah' need t'do be brin' some magical albino negro's hacked limbs t'some 70 IQ gentleman witch docto' and 'spuh'ience da damn placebo effect a'cuz I's gotss'ta be bo'derline retarded gentleman too . Right On!

[The Lawspeaker]

Meanwhile in Africa..

[sean]

Africa is a stubborn superstitious continent, its likely people wont report illness because of suspicion of official channels of help. They're more likely to go see a witch doctor for advice or start going on a witch hunt and burning everyone they think uses black magic.

In the dark parts of Africa they think Albino Africans are magical and can cure diseases so much to the point that they hunt them and murder them, to this day!

I was reading this article the other day about these two albino kids that got admitted as refugees to the U.S.; the day their father died the two sisters were hunted down by greedy relatives and had a leg chopped off for use in potions and magic amulets.

[The Lawspeaker]

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the albino dies tonight.
Uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube

[Peterski]

Scandinavians did the same but to dark-pigmented people:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyr

"The sacrifice of dark-coloured victims to Freyr

There is archaeological evidence for an increase in human sacrifices in the late Viking Age[10] though among the Norse gods human sacrifice is most often linked to Odin. Another reference to Frø and sacrifices is found earlier in the work, where the beginning of an annual blót to him is related. King Hadingus is cursed after killing a divine being and atones for his crime with a sacrifice.

`In order to mollify the divinities he did indeed make a holy sacrifice of dark-coloured victims to the god Frø. He repeated this mode of propitiation at an annual festival and left it to be imitated by his descendants. The Swedes call it Frøblot.` Gesta Danorum1, Fisher's translation."