Reading culture ‘can end albino killings’

The right to life is a constitutional right of every person in the world and such it is provided for in Article 14 of The Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, 1977.

>President Jakaya Kikwete has expressed shock over the fresh wave of killings of people with albinism in the country, saying this barbaric cruelty, which has also given Tanzania a bad image, cannot be tolerated. In his first remarks since the renewed wave of attacks on albinos, which has subjected Tanzania to global condemnation, President Kikwete sought to absolve the government from blame, saying past efforts by his administration had stamped out the vice.

>The killing of people with albinism, ostensibly for their body parts, is a crime so heinous that we must do all we can to bring it to an end. It is disturbing that there is an air of desperation around this subject, with more lamenting than working out a plan of action to save these precious lives.

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete pledges to end the killings of albinos, which he says has brought shame on the East African nation.

Albino killings have become so rampant over the past couple of years, but in recent months the issue of albino killings has ascended to the category of a prominent problem in the country prompting various activists, politicians and the general public to react to the this bulging problem

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>Leaders from the Tanzania Association of People with albinism have asked Tanzanians of goodwill to support them in ending the dangers facing them.

There is this saying that ‘If you want to hide something from an African put it in a book’. I really hate it, but sadly it is one that I get to hear regularly and it makes me cringe each time it’s said. I cringe because most of us use the phrase in a comical manner, yet there is more to it.