Albinos found hiding after attacks

Date: November 29,2009
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About 10,000 albinos were hiding in Africa with fear that people would sell parts of their bodies to witchdoctors. People in Burundi and Tanzania kill them for their parts because they believe they have special powers. Tanzanian officers have been sent to stop these attacks, but they admit its hard. Most of these attacks have been happening in the rural areas because they don't have enough police in there. Now in Tanzania there is the death sentence because of killing and selling albino parts.


Our opinion about this news is that it is really shocking that something like this would happen. We think this is very unfair because killing albinos and selling their body parts because of their "magic" is really stupid. We think human rights should make a death sentence because of killing people for their parts. We also think that they should let them live like everyone else and that its racism.




http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/29/tanzania.albinos/index.html