Albino killers must be brought to book

Albino killers must be brought to book
Daily News
A LETTER writer, one Christina Masanja of Geita Secondary School in Geita Region, wrote to us at the weekend complaining bitterly about the government's laxity - or rather failure - to stop albino killers whose motives, she says, are linked to superstition.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Mar

Four albino killers get death sentences

>The husband of a 32-year-old woman with albinism is among four men sentenced to death for her 2008 killing in Nyamaruru Village. Zawadi Magindu’s attackers, who included her husband Nassoro Charles, cut her limbs and right hand with an axe and a machete.

 

9 years ago

Magufuli

25 Sep

War against albino killers to intensify,

War against albino killers to intensify, - Magufuli
Daily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)
UNION presidential candidate on CCM ticket, Dr John Magufuli, has vowed to intensify the war against killings of people with albinism and the elderly, which are on the increase in Lake Zone regions. Speaking to Bwanga residents who blocked his ...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

14 Jan

Let Us All Pursue 'Albino' Abductors and Killers

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Let Us All Pursue 'Albino' Abductors and Killers
AllAfrica.com
HOME Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe soothed the population by announcing a ban on the so-called soothsayers and witchdoctors, as part of the overall effort by the government to check the shameful episode of abduction and killings of people with ...
The Grim Reason Tanzania Has Decided to Ban WitchdoctorsTIME
Home Affairs minister, Mathias Chikawe (Right)IPPmedia
Tanzania bans witchdoctors over albino attacksBBC...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

02 Jul

Four albino killers sentenced to hang

Four albino killers sentenced to hang
Daily News
THE High Court Mbeya Division yesterday convicted and sentenced to death by hanging four people out of five who were charged with killing a person with albinism, one Henry Mwakajila (16,) in 2008 in Rungwe district, Mbeya region. The condemned ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Apr

Hang albino killers? It can’t be any time soon

It started with a demand that culprits be prosecuted. But when push came to shove, actually putting to death those who kill people with albinism proved a mission too tough. Thanks to the legal system, it takes more than just paperwork from the trial judge to face the hangman.

 

10 years ago

Capital FM Kenya (Press Release) (Subscription) (Blog)

06 Mar

Four albino killers sentenced to death in Tanzania

Capital FM Kenya (press release) (subscription) (blog)
Four albino killers sentenced to death in Tanzania
Capital FM Kenya (press release) (subscription) (blog)
Tanzania, Mar 6 – A court in Tanzania has sentenced four people to death for the murder of an albino woman who was killed so her hacked-off limbs could be used in magic, officials said Friday. The sentencing comes after Tanzania' President Jakaya ...
Tanzania court sentence four to death over killing of young albinoCoastweek
Four...

 

10 years ago

BBC

Tanzania albino killers face death

Four people, including the victim's husband, are sentenced to death in Tanzania after being found guilty of murdering an albino woman.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Jun

Hang albino killers, says lobby group

Arusha. The Tanzania Albino Society (TAS) yesterday pleaded with President Jakaya Kiwete to honour pledges of providing subsidy and signing death warrants to albino killers he made in 2003.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

01 Jan

Proven albino killers must be severely punhed

Proven albino killers must be severely punhed
Daily News
THE abduction of an albino child, four-year-old Pendo Emmanuel in Kwimba Dtrict has prompted the government to dpatch a crack investigation team to the area. Unknown thugs broke the front door at night, stormed into the house and grabbed young Pendo.

 

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