Job Openings For Sensitivity Trainers In East Africa
Some people think it is ok to murder albinos and sell their body parts to witch doctors
Yes, but is it racism?
As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to witchdoctors, the Red Cross said in a recent report.
The killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania, who are targeted because their body parts are believed to have special powers, have sparked fears among the population in the two countries, the report said.
Albino children take a break earlier this year at a Tanzanian school for the blind, which has become a rare sanctuary.
“Thousands more albinos across a huge swathe of countryside … are unable to move freely to trade, study or cultivate fields for fear of albino hunters,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.
So it is literally a witch hunt? Terrorism? Racism? What is this exactly? And perhaps I’m wrong, but I thought that Tanzania was a prosperous, advanced country? I must be way off-base.
If I wasn’t so damn old, I’d adopt them all.
- Aggie