Death for Tanzania albino killers

[go west young man]

Source: BBC

A court in north-western Tanzania has sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old albino boy.

They were found guilty of attacking Matatizo Dunia and severing his legs in Bukombe district in Shinyanga province.

In the past two years there has been a huge rise in murders of albino people. Witchdoctors use their body parts in potions they claim bring prosperity.

Dozens of people have been arrested, but the justice system is notoriously slow and this is the first conviction.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8270446.stm

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Sick and terrible situation for albino people there. They are being multilated with machetes for their body parts. Very sad and disturbing story.

[proteus_lives]

1. Reminds me of old episode of the X-Files.

Tragic. I hope albinos stay careful in that part of the world.


Hanging is too good for those assholes.

[bertman]

2. We are indeed primitive minds as evidenced by the exceedingly weird beliefs many of

us humans hold to be true.

[Gator_Matt]

5. Speak for yourself

The actions of those on the low end of the IQ bell curve do not represent me.

[greiner3]

6. So in other words;

You are not religious, not conservative, not European; that makes you of African birth and an albino? Or are you not a Homo sapiens? Maybe periplaneta americana? But I may be putting the American cockroach down!

[Ian David]

3. Anderson Cooper just breathed a deep sigh of relief, too. n/t

[mitchum]

4. That's why Johnny and Edgar refuse to tour Tanzania

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. death sentances are common in Tanzania, executions aren't

The law is still on the books, but nobody has been hanged many years. Kenya is the same.