A Gothic law enforcement problem: how do you stop people from killing and dismembering albinos? Especially when such human poaching is driven by both commerce and religion?
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.
Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said on Friday the government was revoking the licences of all traditional healers with immediate effect.
This short BBC article, which teeters on the brink of colonialist Gothic, offers at least one classic horror story scene:
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.
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.
(via BoingBoing)
Aw, that is so tragic. What's the thing with Albino?
Luigi Hanway
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