Another Albino Child Is Murdered and Mutilated in Tanzania

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Another Albino Child Is Murdered and Mutilated in Tanzania
VICE News
A 1-year-old albino boy, abducted from his home in northwestern Tanzania over the weekend, was found murdered on Tuesday with his "arms and legs hacked off," according to the local police chief. This gruesome discovery shows that despite new laws ...
Kidnapped Tanzanian albino boy found dead with limbs hacked offThe Guardian
Tanzanian albino boy found mutilatedBBC News
Tanzania: Albino baby found mutilatedNews24
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The Independent

23 May

Witch doctors arrested after albino woman murdered 'for potions' in Tanzania

The Independent
Witch doctors arrested after albino woman murdered 'for potions' in Tanzania
The Independent
Two witch doctors have been arrested after an albino woman was found murdered and mutilated in Tanzania. Police in the Simiyu region said the 40-year-old victim was murdered overnight earlier this month and the attackers had hacked off her left leg, the ...

 

10 years ago

The Southern Herald

19 Feb

Tanzanian albino boy discovered mutilated

The Southern Herald
Tanzanian albino boy discovered mutilated
The Southern Herald
The body of an albino boy who went missing on Sunday is found in Tanzania with his limbs hacked off in what appears to be a witchcraft killing. Tanzanian albino boy discovered mutilated. An albino toddler lacking since Sunday has been located lifeless in ...
Missing albino child found dead in TanzaniaNewstime Africa
Albino baby hacked to death in Tanzania's latest witchcraft related deathMirror.co.uk
Abducted...

 

10 years ago

BBC

Tanzanian albino boy found mutilated

The body of an albino boy who went missing on Sunday is found in Tanzania with his limbs hacked off in what appears to be a witchcraft killing.

 

10 years ago

Daily Mail

18 Feb

Mutilated Tanzanian albino baby body found: police

Daily Mail
Mutilated Tanzanian albino baby body found: police
Daily Mail
The mutilated body of an albino toddler has been found in Tanzania with his limbs hacked off, just days after he was taken by machete wielding kidnappers looking to make money from a sick black market trade fueled by a belief in witchcraft. Yohana Bahati's ...
Tanzania: Albino baby found mutilatedNews24
Tanzanian albino boy found mutilatedBBC News
Tanzania: Albinism under Attack from TraditionPress TV
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10 years ago

IPPmedia

12 Mar

Light skin child murdered in ongoing PwA killings

Light skin child murdered in ongoing PwA killings
IPPmedia
Police in Arusha Region are holding at least one person in connection with the killing of a light skinned child mistaken to be a Person with Albinism (PwA). Eleven year old, Loveness Maliaki (11) was attacked by unknown assailants and several of her body ...

 

10 years ago

Sky News

19 Feb

Albino Toddler Murdered For 'Lucky' Body Parts

Irish Independent
Albino Toddler Murdered For 'Lucky' Body Parts
Sky News
The UN condemns the mutilation of the one-year-old, who was targeted by an armed gang so his limbs could be used by witch doctors. 17:18, UK, Thursday 19 February 2015. Children with albinism sit at the Golden Valley English Medium School in Geita.
Tanzanian gangs hack off limbs of albinos for traditional ritualsLos Angeles Times
Mutilation, killing of Tanzanian boy with albinism strongly condemned by UN ...UN News...

 

10 years ago

Catholic Online

28 Jan

GRISLY HUMAN HARVEST: Tanzania's albinos are hunted down and mutilated ...

Catholic Online
GRISLY HUMAN HARVEST: Tanzania's albinos are hunted down and mutilated ...
Catholic Online
Albinism, a condition that robs the body of pigments, affects a small section of the population. In the African nation of Tanzania, however, albinos are prized for their body parts - said to bring luck according to local witch doctors. This has led to persecution, ...
How Family Members Sell Albinos To Ritualists For N113,000 EachNAIJ.COM
Sold By Their Own Families For £50k: Tanzania's...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Feb

UN calls for action as body of albino child found

The body of Yohana Bahati, a one-year-old child with albinism, who was on Sunday abducted by unidentified people, was on TUesday this week with his arms and legs hacked off.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Mar

LAKE ZONE: 5 held in albino child murder

>The Police Force here is holding five people on suspicions of taking part in the recent murder of Yohana Bahati, a one-year-old minor with albinism kidnapped from her mother, Esther Jonas, who was carrying him on February 15, this year.

 

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