By DAVID LOWE The Sun UK
WITH their milky white skin, wispy hair and haunting, pale eyes, they are called “the living ghosts” by locals.
And the vulnerable albinos of Tanzania in East Africa have more than insults to fear.
They are being hunted down and hacked to death to satisfy a growing demand for their body parts and blood to use in black magic. It is the stuff of nightmares.
In the Mwanga district, near Mount Kilimanjaro, a baby girl was dressed in black by her mother and left alone in the family hut.
A group of men cut off the pale girl’s legs, slit her throat, poured the blood into a pot and drank it.
In another sickening case a man was caught trying to enter the Democratic Republic of Congo with an albino child’s HEAD in his luggage.
The stories go on. A 35-year-old fisherman at Lake Tanganyika allegedly attempted to sell his 24-year-old albino wife to two businessmen from Congo for around £2,000.
And just last week, in the province of Shinyanga, 13-year-old albino Elizabeth Hussein was tempted from her home after hearing that a film about Jesus was to be screened in the village.
On the way back she was hacked apart by a machete-armed mob. Her limbs were found at the home of a witch doctor — who fled cops following a tip-off.
Two days later 47-year-old Ezekiel John, 47, was shot and had his arms and legs severed near the city of Kigoma.
Al-Shaymaa, 48, says: “In October we staged a demonstration in the city of Dar es Salaam to raise awareness of our situation.Many people were brave and supported it.
“But that same evening one of the demonstrators was followed home. She was grabbed and the assailants cut off her arm.
“They tried to hack off the other and it was left hanging and later had to be amputated. The attackers ran away.
“Now she is living in terror because she won’t be able to fight back if they come after her again.”
Ernest Kimaya, 42, chairman of the society, says: “The people who are killing us are witch doctors or agents for them.
It is very sophisticated (we are told) to embrace multiculturalism, and to mock Christianity and our civilized culture because all cultures are equal, in Africa worshipping the dark forces of Satan and witches is still more openly practiced than here, and it is ugly, "It is the stuff of nightmares". WM
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Welcome to Albino Island (Zombies hunt for flesh, we embrace multiculturalism)
By DAVID LOWE The Sun UK
WITH their milky white skin, wispy hair and haunting, pale eyes, they are called “the living ghosts” by locals.
And the vulnerable albinos of Tanzania in East Africa have more than insults to fear.
They are being hunted down and hacked to death to satisfy a growing demand for their body parts and blood to use in black magic. It is the stuff of nightmares.
In the Mwanga district, near Mount Kilimanjaro, a baby girl was dressed in black by her mother and left alone in the family hut.
A group of men cut off the pale girl’s legs, slit her throat, poured the blood into a pot and drank it.
In another sickening case a man was caught trying to enter the Democratic Republic of Congo with an albino child’s HEAD in his luggage.
The stories go on. A 35-year-old fisherman at Lake Tanganyika allegedly attempted to sell his 24-year-old albino wife to two businessmen from Congo for around £2,000.
And just last week, in the province of Shinyanga, 13-year-old albino Elizabeth Hussein was tempted from her home after hearing that a film about Jesus was to be screened in the village.
On the way back she was hacked apart by a machete-armed mob. Her limbs were found at the home of a witch doctor — who fled cops following a tip-off.
Two days later 47-year-old Ezekiel John, 47, was shot and had his arms and legs severed near the city of Kigoma.
Al-Shaymaa, 48, says: “In October we staged a demonstration in the city of Dar es Salaam to raise awareness of our situation.Many people were brave and supported it.
“But that same evening one of the demonstrators was followed home. She was grabbed and the assailants cut off her arm.
“They tried to hack off the other and it was left hanging and later had to be amputated. The attackers ran away.
“Now she is living in terror because she won’t be able to fight back if they come after her again.”
Ernest Kimaya, 42, chairman of the society, says: “The people who are killing us are witch doctors or agents for them.
It is very sophisticated (we are told) to embrace multiculturalism, and to mock Christianity and our civilized culture because all cultures are equal, in Africa worshipping the dark forces of Satan and witches is still more openly practiced than here, and it is ugly, "It is the stuff of nightmares". WM
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