
The brutal killings - 40 since 2007 - are fueled by rumors that albino blood, skin, and hair have magical powers. Sometimes as family members look on in horror, groups of machete-wielding men have chopped off the legs, heads, and genitals of albinos.Īmong the dead: a seven-month-old baby, a cassava farmer with two children, and a child murdered by his own father, according to reports by the BBC. Albinos-people with white hair and skin, and often reddish eyes-are being mutilated and murdered for their body parts in Tanzania, according to The New York Times.
