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Tanzania's albino community fear being killed for their body parts for witch doctors | Daily Mail Online
In some parts of the country, albino hunters brutally hack off the hair, arms, legs, skin, eyes, and genitals of their victims - abandoning them dead or alive - because these body parts are used in witch doctors' spells and potions.
Tanzania's albinos relive horror of their limbs being stolen by witchdoctors | Daily Mail Online
'They came in the night,' she whispered in a safe house in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. 'They broke the door down – four men with machetes.'
Miriamu Staford is the daughter of black, African parents, but her skin is white. Her blond hair is pulled back in a ponytail. There is a blueish tinge to her grey eyes.
Miriamu has albinism. Due to a genetic defect her body cannot produce melanin, a pigment that protects the skin against the sun's rays and allows it to take colour.
Victim: Miriamu Staford was 25 and had just finished reading her young sisters a bedtime story when four masked men stormed into her clay hut, blinding Miriamu with flashlights. One yanked her arm up, another chopped below the shoulder with a machete. The other arm could not be saved and was amputated later in the hospital
In Europe people with albinism are often barely noticeable. In Africa stories have grown up over hundreds of years around people with albinism that attribute supernatural powers to them.
In Tanzania, they are described as zeru-zeru, immortal spirits.
'That's why they kill us,' said Miriamu softly. 'They believe that our body parts and organs will make them rich and happy.'
In October 2008, the men with the machetes came to take Miriamu's arms.
Back then the 25-year-old corn farmer who just read her young sisters a bedtime story when she heard a loud crack. Then a large stone smashed through the door of her clay hut. Four masked men stormed in, blinding Miriamu with flashlights. One yanked her arm up, another chopped below the shoulder with a machete.
'His blade was dull. He hacked and he hacked,' recalled Miriamu breathlessly, as if it were happening again.
'Blood — blood everywhere. There was a jerk, my arm tore off.
'That's when I felt the burning. That's when I screamed in pain.'
Miriamu's sisters had run out of the hut, her parents were locked in the next room. The young woman was still fully conscious as the attackers started on the second arm.
Read more: Tanzania's albinos relive horror of their limbs being stolen by witchdoctors | Daily Mail Online
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In some parts of the country, albino hunters brutally hack off the hair, arms, legs, skin, eyes, and genitals of their victims - abandoning them dead or alive - because these body parts are used in witch doctors' spells and potions.
Tanzania's albinos relive horror of their limbs being stolen by witchdoctors | Daily Mail Online
'They came in the night,' she whispered in a safe house in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. 'They broke the door down – four men with machetes.'
Miriamu Staford is the daughter of black, African parents, but her skin is white. Her blond hair is pulled back in a ponytail. There is a blueish tinge to her grey eyes.
Miriamu has albinism. Due to a genetic defect her body cannot produce melanin, a pigment that protects the skin against the sun's rays and allows it to take colour.
Victim: Miriamu Staford was 25 and had just finished reading her young sisters a bedtime story when four masked men stormed into her clay hut, blinding Miriamu with flashlights. One yanked her arm up, another chopped below the shoulder with a machete. The other arm could not be saved and was amputated later in the hospital
In Europe people with albinism are often barely noticeable. In Africa stories have grown up over hundreds of years around people with albinism that attribute supernatural powers to them.
In Tanzania, they are described as zeru-zeru, immortal spirits.
'That's why they kill us,' said Miriamu softly. 'They believe that our body parts and organs will make them rich and happy.'
In October 2008, the men with the machetes came to take Miriamu's arms.
Back then the 25-year-old corn farmer who just read her young sisters a bedtime story when she heard a loud crack. Then a large stone smashed through the door of her clay hut. Four masked men stormed in, blinding Miriamu with flashlights. One yanked her arm up, another chopped below the shoulder with a machete.
'His blade was dull. He hacked and he hacked,' recalled Miriamu breathlessly, as if it were happening again.
'Blood — blood everywhere. There was a jerk, my arm tore off.
'That's when I felt the burning. That's when I screamed in pain.'
Miriamu's sisters had run out of the hut, her parents were locked in the next room. The young woman was still fully conscious as the attackers started on the second arm.
Read more: Tanzania's albinos relive horror of their limbs being stolen by witchdoctors | Daily Mail Online
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hope the piece of shyts have a long life with nothing but bad happen to them
Jesus christ
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you guys are so quick to expose yourselves.