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Problems of "black sheep"
Although the problem of discrimination against albinos in Africa south of the Sahara (Black Africa) has existed for many years, in recent years in Tanzania, their situation has deteriorated significantly. Increasingly albinos in Tanzania become targets of this hunt: they are attacked in order to kill and get their organs, limbs and even the hair, which are used in voodoo rituals, for the manufacture of the elixir of wealth and success in business. According to local residents, healers use organs and bones of albinos in the broth in which, supposedly, you can find diamonds in the ground, and the fishermen on Lake Victoria weave albino hair net in hopes of a big catch. More than 50 albinos have been killed in Tanzania and the neighboring state of Burundi last year, a fact that has prompted rights organizations to combine their efforts, and has caused a number of arrests and prosecutions related to the killers of albinos, on the trail that quickly left the Tanzanian government.
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1) The Tanzanian teenage girl sitting in the women's dormitory of the state school for the disabled in Kabange, the village on the west of the country near the town of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika, June 5, 2009. The school began to accept children with albinism since late last year, after being in Tanzania and neighboring Burundi began killing of albinos in order to use parts of their bodies in voodoo rituals. (REUTERS / Alex Wynter / IFRC / Handout)
2) 76-year-old Mabula squatting in the bedroom with a dirt floor, near the grave of her granddaughter, Mariam Emmanuel five years, the small albino, who was murdered and dismembered in the next room in February 2008. The girl was buried right in the cabin to hunters body parts of albinos are not taken away her bones. The picture was taken January 25, 2009 in a village near Mwanza. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
3) Nine-year Amani sits in the recreation elementary school for the blind in Mitido January 25, 2009. He entered here after the murder of his sister, five-year Mariam Emmanuel, albino girl who was murdered and dismembered in February 2008. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
4) Children Albino playing in the yard of primary school for the blind in Mitido January 25, 2009 ... This school has become a real haven for rare albino children. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
5) In this photo taken on Jan. 27, 2009, 28-year-old Nima Kayani sculpts in clay pot in his grandmother's house in Ukereve, Tanzania, which is now live her brother and sister, also an albino, as she did. Ukereve Island on Lake Victoria is located near the town of Mwanza, a safe haven in comparison with other regions of Tanzania, where albinos live in fear for their lives because of them declared a real hunt, because more and more of their internal organs and even the hair used for making magical potions. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
6) Children albino during a break in the recreation elementary school for the blind Mitido January 25, 2009. This school has become a real haven for rare albino children. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
7) Volunteer of the Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) holding the hand of a baby albino on a picnic organized in TRCS in a public school for the disabled in Kabange, in the west of the country near the town of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika 5 June 2009. (REUTERS / Alex Wynter / IFRC / Handout)
8) In this photo taken May 28, 2009, you can see parts of the human body, including the femur and flayed the skin that are exposed in the courtroom during the trial of 11 Burundians. The defendants are accused of the murder of albinos, whose limbs were sold to witch doctors from neighboring Tanzania, in Ruyigi. During the trial, the prosecutor of Burundi, Nicodemo Gahimbare demanded the defendants from one year to life imprisonment. Gahimbare demanded life imprisonment as a penalty for three of the 11 defendants, eight of whom were on trial for the murder of eight girls and men that has been made in March this year. (Esdras Ndikumana / AFP / Getty Images)
9) Child-albino on a picnic organized by the Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) in a public school for the disabled in Kabange, near the Tanzanian town of Kigoma June 5, 2009. (REUTERS / Alex Wynter / IFRC / Handout)
10) A teenage girl rewrites examples from the board in the classroom primary school for the blind in Mitindo January 28, 2009 in Tanzania. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
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1) The Tanzanian teenage girl sitting in the women's dormitory of the state school for the disabled in Kabange, the village on the west of the country near the town of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika, June 5, 2009. The school began to accept children with albinism since late last year, after being in Tanzania and neighboring Burundi began killing of albinos in order to use parts of their bodies in voodoo rituals. (REUTERS / Alex Wynter / IFRC / Handout)
2) 76-year-old Mabula squatting in the bedroom with a dirt floor, near the grave of her granddaughter, Mariam Emmanuel five years, the small albino, who was murdered and dismembered in the next room in February 2008. The girl was buried right in the cabin to hunters body parts of albinos are not taken away her bones. The picture was taken January 25, 2009 in a village near Mwanza. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
3) Nine-year Amani sits in the recreation elementary school for the blind in Mitido January 25, 2009. He entered here after the murder of his sister, five-year Mariam Emmanuel, albino girl who was murdered and dismembered in February 2008. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
4) Children Albino playing in the yard of primary school for the blind in Mitido January 25, 2009 ... This school has become a real haven for rare albino children. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
5) In this photo taken on Jan. 27, 2009, 28-year-old Nima Kayani sculpts in clay pot in his grandmother's house in Ukereve, Tanzania, which is now live her brother and sister, also an albino, as she did. Ukereve Island on Lake Victoria is located near the town of Mwanza, a safe haven in comparison with other regions of Tanzania, where albinos live in fear for their lives because of them declared a real hunt, because more and more of their internal organs and even the hair used for making magical potions. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
6) Children albino during a break in the recreation elementary school for the blind Mitido January 25, 2009. This school has become a real haven for rare albino children. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
7) Volunteer of the Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) holding the hand of a baby albino on a picnic organized in TRCS in a public school for the disabled in Kabange, in the west of the country near the town of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika 5 June 2009. (REUTERS / Alex Wynter / IFRC / Handout)
8) In this photo taken May 28, 2009, you can see parts of the human body, including the femur and flayed the skin that are exposed in the courtroom during the trial of 11 Burundians. The defendants are accused of the murder of albinos, whose limbs were sold to witch doctors from neighboring Tanzania, in Ruyigi. During the trial, the prosecutor of Burundi, Nicodemo Gahimbare demanded the defendants from one year to life imprisonment. Gahimbare demanded life imprisonment as a penalty for three of the 11 defendants, eight of whom were on trial for the murder of eight girls and men that has been made in March this year. (Esdras Ndikumana / AFP / Getty Images)
9) Child-albino on a picnic organized by the Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) in a public school for the disabled in Kabange, near the Tanzanian town of Kigoma June 5, 2009. (REUTERS / Alex Wynter / IFRC / Handout)
10) A teenage girl rewrites examples from the board in the classroom primary school for the blind in Mitindo January 28, 2009 in Tanzania. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP / Getty Images)
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