Nine-Year-Old Albino Boy Dismembered
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Burundi albino boy 'dismembered'
Albinos in Tanzania have become targets for body-snatchers seeking to sell them to witch doctors
The dismembered body of a young albino boy has been found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border, reports say.
The boy, aged nine, was taken from Makamba province in Burundi by a gang that crossed the border, the head of Burundi's albino association said.
Kassim Kazungu told AFP the remains had been recovered from the Malagarazi river and given a formal burial.
Albino body parts are prized in parts of Africa, with witch-doctors claiming they have special powers.
Mr Kazungu told the AFP news agency that Tanzanian police had arrested five people, although there was no official confirmation from Tanzania.
In Tanzania, the body parts of people living with albinism are used by witch-doctors for potions which they tell clients will help make them rich or healthy.
Dozens of albinos have been killed, and the killings have spread to neighbouring Burundi.
In August a court in Tanzania sentenced a Kenyan to 17 years in jail on charges of trying to sell an albino person.
Tanzanian authorities have promised to crack down on albino traffickers, and several people have been sentenced to death in connection with killings.
Photo: Albinos in Tanzania have become targets for body-snatchers seeking to sell them to witch doctors
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Ghost_in_the_Machine
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I think I may vomit.
- 1 year ago
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Ghost_in_the_Machine
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Exodus
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Wow, some people have some twisted beliefs, that is so sad, I feel bad for these people, killed, sold, hurt, all because they are albino, r.i.p. little guy.
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Exodus
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dalistuff
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dang, no respect.
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dalistuff
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littlwarrior
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Education, say it with me now, education. People that know cannot be told lies as easily as people who have no idea. Honestly the best thing for these people would be a tv in every village running things like discovery and nat geo and nova running 24/7 next thing you know witch doctors will be out of buisness, exept for hauntings, that show on animal planet called the haunted is going to freak people out.
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littlwarrior
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ImConcerned:
Oh god I know, this nation gets dumber with every day that passes. Just dumber and dumber.
- 1 year ago
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littlwarrior
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idealist
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these "witch doctors are responsible for a lot of pain and misery,can't something be done about that?!
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idealist
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thelastwheeler
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All Humans came from Africa. Could this be the origin or white people. Could thousands of years ago these albino children been kept together, as they are today? Might then they grow up fall in love and have children? Would some recessive traits become dominant ?Might they then flee to the north to avoid the witches stew?Could this be why white people fear witches? Could i jump to any more conclusions? Stay tuned.
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thelastwheeler
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insaintity
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thelastwheeler:
Check out, "Guns, Germs & Steel," for some slightly more reasonable theories.
- 1 year ago
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insaintity
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mrbeckett81
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Okay; it's time to start educating the motherfuckers in those "backwoods," superstitious parts of Africa where witch-doctors are taken seriously. First they tell people that sex with virgins will cure aid, resulting in the gang rape of infants and toddlers. Now they've got people dismembering children for albino parts?! I'm all for allowing native cultures to hold on to their old religions, but goddamn...!
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mrbeckett81
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keepthinkingboo
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wow ...
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keepthinkingboo
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Nephwrack
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disgusting. one more reason to foster education worldwide, for free.
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Nephwrack
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unimatrix0
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Once people give in to religious superstition all manner of horror is possible.
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unimatrix0
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Chris_Corl
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unimatrix0:
Religion defined is repetition. So a phrase or view point repeated is religion.
Which religion do you belong to?
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Chris_Corl
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unimatrix0
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Chris_Corl:
Your definition of religion is confused and incorrect.
I am without religion, as all reasonable and rational people should be.
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EthicalVegan
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unimatrix0:
Precisely.
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EthicalVegan
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bailey78
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So just how do we correct this? Thats what I want to know. We can't keep them from killing the Rhino or the Elephant. These people are in a place that is a so called safe. They are kidnaping them from a safehouse or safe village. That does not sound to safe. Strange place wth strange customs. I really think this borderlines on the Evil side of life.
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bailey78
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Armageddon_Now
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Hold on just a minute.
There's a Burundi Albino Association?
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Armageddon_Now
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softslot
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Woo Hoo
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softslot
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jbird9936
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My questions are - this is being reported now? How long has this been an issue?
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bailey78
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jbird9936:
Longer than we will ever know.
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jbird9936:
It's been reported in the past, but especially so in the last two years.
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EthicalVegan
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antisocialnetworker
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So yeaaaah
Is no one going to tell the people of Africa that Albinism is just a genetically recessive trait?
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antisocialnetworker:
we can't get people to understand science here!
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alexandrek:
Um... understatement...?
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alexandrek:
...sacre bleu!!!!!!!!!!!!
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alexandrek:
Vraiment horrible!
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NatasRedrumDog
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Maybe M.J. was on to something.
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Nephwrack
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NatasRedrumDog:
explain?
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Nephwrack:
I just enjoy dark humor. Especially when it offends people.
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EthicalVegan
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NatasRedrumDog:
But in this case, we're talking about a little 9-year-old boy... not so funny, really, if you think about the torture this child had to endure.
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PzLuvHappeniz
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There are still witch doctors?
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EthicalVegan
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PzLuvHappeniz:
Please tell me you're kidding. Don't know if you live in the USA, but there are plenty right here, to be sure.
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EthicalVegan
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PzLuvHappeniz:
Santeria is similar and still widely in practice.
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NiceN
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Win for none
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ozoneocean
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If we can't stop trafficking in endangered species parts for exactly the same reasons, what hope do we have here? It's all part of the same idiotic thing.
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ozoneocean:
See the crocodile on the airplane story... he he
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CalgarC
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WTF that is just not right
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Lennox_McDuff
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Best course of action is to get rid of all the witch doctors. I would like to see an albino go on a witch doctor killing spree.
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Dmerza1989
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i would sure like to dismember some of those dismemberers?
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artemis6
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Can we not have global education ? This does NOT need to happen .
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Incredulous
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Einsam_Data_Old:
digress on...
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Einsam_Data_Old:
why in the hell is everyone so obsessed with these pods? seriously? they have vangaurd for this kind of shit.
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alexandrek:
All Humans came from Africa. Could this be the origin or white people. Could thousands of years ago these albino children been kept together, as they are today? Might then they grow up fall in love and have children? Would some recessive traits become dominant ?Might they then flee to the north to avoid the witches stew?Could this be why white people fear witches? Could i jump to any more conclusions? Stay tuned.
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Sparky2U
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WTF ?
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vixxxen618
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maybe if i have sex with a virgin it will cure my aids. maybe if i eat a severed penis it will increase my fertility. the scariest part is these people have access to automatic weapons.
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MisterWizard
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Why ? I can't imagine just how frighten he was in his final moments of being alive. Pray for his soul.
My God.
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EmperorThan
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Let me guess, Africa somewhere? ....Yep. They're obsessed with albinos there.
I remember seeing that on a VBS vid one time.
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chloroplasts
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Whoa, that's seriously messed up. I bet albinos in that area wish they really did have special powers to keep those crazy fucks away from them.
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common_sense_please
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WTF? Twilight and True Blood made all self respecting true Transylvania vampires call themselves albinos now?
In all seriousness though I thought that being albino was a rare genetic disorder so where are all these albino people coming from? And if Warren Jeffs can be thrown in jail for polygamy and having a bunch of children with genetic defects then where the hell is the world health organization or the criminal prosecution in this case if there is a sudden overpopulation of albino children, teens, and young adults.
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ozoneocean
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common_sense_please:
Albinism is more common in Africa. There are various causes.
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eden49
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...2010 anyone...
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Einsam_Data_Old:
Um, I'm sorry, but if the belief that people have the right not to be kidnapped and slaughtered is not universal, then I guess I am going to have to go with forcing that belief on everyone else. Call me a tyrant.
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Einsam_Data_Old:
my bad
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