- Title p-TZA0073.jpg
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- Summary Awaiting review
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- Region Africa
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- Date_Taken 1st January 2010
- Keywords Migration
- Language English: EN
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- Copyright owner Alex Wynter/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Country Tanzania, United Republic of
- Credit line Alex Wynter/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Existing Description A Tanzanian albino mother and her black child at a picnic organized by the Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) in the government-run school for the disabled in Kabanga, in the west of the country near the town of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika. The school began to take in albino children late last year after two albinos were killed by people who believe their body parts, carried as charms, bestow good luck, part of a spate of such murders in the country. The woman says she fled from her village after hearing that people were looking for albinos to kill for their body parts. There are now nearly 50 albino children, youngsters and mothers sheltering in Kabanga, which also houses children with hearing and sight problems. Many of them only just escaped their villages with their lives and tell harrowing stories of killing and mutilation. One small boy says his non-albino mother’s hand was severed by albino hunters armed with machetes after she tried to prevent them seizing him. The school has now completely run out of space, but vulnerable albinos are still being brought in by the police from as many as 200 kilometres away. The TRCS has been able to provide sunblock cream as well as blankets, mosquito nets, soap and mattresses left over from its programme to assist Burundian and Congolese refugees in camps nearby, including personal contributions from volunteers. The Tanzanian government said recently it would take steps to fast-track murder trials involving the killing of albinos. Tanzania, May 2009.
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