Albinos Killed For Their Organs

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the recent murders of albino people in Tanzania, killed for their organs. Groups like the Tanzania Albino Society are trying to put these killings to an end.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7518049.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania
http://www.rocketboom.com/field-correspondents/
http://videoreporter.nl/

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• africa
• albinism
• human
• myth
• occult
• rights
• tanzania

[blake123holloway]

i look and all i see are people...living, breathing, thinking people.....what is lacking is education, not only in these remote villages but also in the comments posted here...they are somebody's mother, father, brother, sister, etc....no matter how black or white or lack of color they are...bottom line...universally HUMAN,,,, and we should all be treated as such....one love........ONE LOVE

[Tarandarklord]

And I thought programming forums had pointless arguments...this is just another typical racial battle. I'm not waiting for any particular race to stop acting like savages, I'm waiting for the human species as a whole to stop acting like savages. Looks like I'll be long dead before we even get remotely CLOSE to that.

[mintakka1]

People with albinism are people too. I don't think people should kill them and take there body parts that's just awful. It doesn't matter what race you are, what color your skin is or if you are disabled. We are all human beings and have the right to happiness.

[Dragonseye09]

Creepy

[freacls]

thise is so heartbreaking thise is like something out the middle ages not 21st century my little cousion is albino shes 7 and shes never had any problems at school which is mainstream and shes very popular and shes just a normal kid into things other girls her age are pink glitzy things hello kitty high school musical glee and she knows shes a spoilt princess i could never imagin anything like that happen to her if anyone harmed a hair on her head if be them getting killed so sad

[jenniferrobles23]

@ZubXeroHIdro that is so wrong!! why would people try and harvest the organs of albino people for? their not freaks, they have a genetic disorder, and to me their just as beautiful as any other person without the disorder. their evil bastards, who like to take advantage of human life, their poachers.

[TheBeckers16]

omgg they killed a babyy..?

[nounever]

@VendPrekmurec I have lived in central Asia and then Japan I have traveled and I am mixed raced. I am not historically or culturally ignorant of anyone or any race. Nigger is a mentality. it does not refer to all negroid Africans or Khosian etc. But you know I am only a hillbilly hick from a small town and no brain rather somebody who is studying anthropology next year and the opposite to what you assumed me to be and don't lecture me on hate I am not 12 your comment is preposterous.

[VendPrekmurec]

@nounever There live good people and bad, evil people... many whites, yellows are evil too. You can not put all blacks into 1 basket and just - to hate them. There live black people who would save your life if you would be in danger, believe me...

do not hate others, when you do not know them. They are not all evil.

and have a nice day...

[meeproar]

@gallant25 "Fortunately your canned and junk foods, medicines kill you with cancer, blood pressure, and diabetes"

Life expectancy - Iceland: 81.8, Sweden: 80.9, Germany: 79.4, United States 78.3

Rwanda: 46.2, Zambia: 42.4, Central African Republic: 44.7, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 46.5

[aznerd999]

they don't bring good luck. how fucking stupid do these people get. stop chopping off their limbs thats fucking messed up