'Men Sold Albinos' Limbs To Witch Doctors'

It is a sad case that people who look different are being witch hunted in their countries in the year 2009. We know not all societies of the world are as modern as the developed countries we have here but superstitions to the point of destroying another human is a sad fact that happens.

Albino's skynews

Eleven people have gone on trial in Burundi accused over the killing of albinos and the suspected sale of their limbs to witch doctors.
Eight of the defendants are charged with the murder of a young girl and man in March this year.

The trial is being held in the central African country's eastern Ruyigi province, where most of the killings took place.

Nicodeme Gahimbare, prosecuting, said: "There are four categories of people involved in trafficking albino organs: the clients who are in Tanzania, the go-betweens, the killers and the poor albinos, who are the victims.

"Those who are here in front of us are the executioners who committed these crimes, convinced they would earn 600m Burundian francs (£309,000) and become rich - but all they got was promises," he added.

Police believe albino body parts have been smuggled across the border into Tanzania to practice black magic.

Around 20 albinos, including children, attended the hearing at which the defendants pleaded not guilty.

At least 12 albinos have been murdered and mutilated in Burundi in the six months up to March this year.

In neighbouring Tanzania, more than 40 albinos have been killed since late 2007.

Albinism is a congenital lack of the melanin pigment in the skin, eyes and hair which protects against the sun's ultraviolet rays.

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Albinism is hereditary; it is not an infectious disease and cannot be transmitted through contact, blood transfusions, or other vectors. The principal gene which results in albinism prevents the body from making the usual amounts of the pigment melanin. Most forms of albinism are the result of the biological inheritance of genetically recessive alleles (genes) passed from both parents of an individual, though some rare forms are inherited from only one parent. There are other genetic mutations which are proven to be associated with albinism. All alterations, however, lead to changes in melanin production in the body.[1][2]
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There is no country on earth that do not do witch hunts. If the government ever found out you have an ability you may be watched, and or put in hospital or on medication to wreck your brain. This happens in uk, usa, russia all over.

They just do not let these people have a voice.

Stop thinking witch hunts do not happen in uk, usa or where ever, they do, its just under other names.

There is scientific experiments and their are religious rituals too that I think are different. But are not suicide bombers in a ritual? Are abortion clinics not in some form doing the devil's work in child sacrifice to the nation? What about Bohiemian Grove that Alex Jones goes on about and their alleged human sacrifices? I know things happen behind closed doors but its not interwoven here in a form of social acceptance like it once was.

What should the world do in the light of such persecution of minorities, should Europe help these people out and say we are a safe haven or do we just accept any ex-military African war criminal in and extremists in without say? Europe should be helping the persecuted and we should ban the persecutors of this world, leave them in their own harsh environments.