Tanzania tells witch doctors to stay away from albinos

Zimbabwe News.Net
Sunday 25th January, 2009

Traditional healers have been banned in Tanzania, in an effort to stop then using the body parts of albinos.

In a recent murder, an albino man was knifed in a remote area bordering Lake Victoria, where superstitions are entrenched.

Albino rights groups claim the killers sell body parts including limbs, hair, skin and genitals to witch doctors for use in rituals.

40 albinos, so-called because they lack a pigment in their eyes, skin or hair, have been found murdered in Tanzania since mid-2007.

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