Article: Killers of Burundi albinos jailed.

Article: Crackdown on witchdoctors after albinos killed to harvest body ...
The Independent - London;  April 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... government, 19 albino people have been killed in ... Development. The Tanzania Albino Society, which in the past ... are about 270,000 people in Tanzania who suffer ... white man - and many people do not understand that ... such as the Tanzania Albino Society and Action on ...

Article: African outcasts, now hunted Albinos pay price for their light ...
International Herald Tribune;  June 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... turning to the Tanzanian Albino Society for help. But the nonprofit ... Parliament, said: "People think we're lucky ... accident that the Tanzania Albino Society's office is on the ... welts and burns. "People say we can't die ...

Article: Albinos in Tanzania killed for body parts
International Herald Tribune;  June 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... turning to the Tanzanian Albino Society for help. But the nonprofit ... Parliament, said, "People think we're lucky ... accident that the Tanzania Albino Society's office is on the ... welts and burns. "People say we can't die ...

Article: A skin-deep African affliction.(Brief Article)
The Economist (US);  April 22, 2000 ;     680 words ... ... chairman of the 80- member Albino Society in Morogoro, a town 80km (50 ... prevalent in Tanzania. The Tanzania Albino Society claims that there are 700,000 ... suggest that only one in 17,000 people has some form of albinism. One ...

Article: White skin, black souls
New African;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Tanzania, according to the Tanzanian Albino Society (TZA). Other cultural myths run from ... Zimbabwe is closed to albinos because people wrongly believe that albinism is contagious ... function at the same level as "normal people". Most female albinos stay unmarried ...

Article: (Special for CAFS) UNICEF calls for crackdown on albino murders ...
Xinhua News Agency;  December 24, 2008 ;     514 words ... ... acts as a systematic violation of individual human rights that must be dealt with decisively." Reports from the Tanzania Albino Society say more than 35 albinos have been killed this year, and that many other deaths have likely gone unreported. Some Tanzanians ...

Article: A horrendous trade; Albinos in east Africa.(Saving Albinos in ...
The Economist (US);  January 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... suspect they are being tracked by gangsters determined to kill them and harvest their body parts. According to the Tanzania Albino Society, at least 35 albinos were murdered in Tanzania last year to supply witch doctors with limbs, organs and hair for their ...