Albinos Are Now Hot Cakes In Tanzania With Highest Number Of K!llings In Body Parts
All in the names of luck and wealth, people of Tanzania has the highest number of killings and attacks of albinos in Africa and trade in body parts of the human Please is this the way?? Tanzania's albinos are being 'hunted down like animals' as greed for money and influence drives families to turn on their own loved ones in a trade allegedly fuelled by some of the country's most powerful people. It is believed albino body parts will bring a person wealth, or luck - and for that, people are willing to pay as much as $3,000 or $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 - about £50,000 - for the 'full set', a whole body. People with albinism are regularly attacked by people who chop their limbs off - an act which either leaves them severely mutilated, or dead. Albinism, a hereditary genetic condition which causes a total absence of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes, affects one Tanzanian in 1,400, often as a result of inbreeding in remote and rural communitie...