Ntomaa, I agree. I think Burundi should set an example for Tanzania to  
follow, that we Africans consider the trade in human body parts to be abhorrent,  
inhumane, and a threat to national securities for those countries targeted by  
these middlemen or sorcerers. I also encourage more attention be paid to 
mental  illness in Africa. Some of these halucinations can be blamed on sheer 
ignorance  and gratuitous criminality, but a good part of it can be due  to 
indifference to mental illness.
Thanx again Niamorkono. Haruna. 
 
 
In a message dated 3/16/2009 11:19:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Ntomaa.
 
Thanks for the forward.I hope these albino killers are brought to justice  in 
both countries. 
There must be a total stop to the brutal killings of our folks for  
witchcraft.This is horrible.
 
Niamorkono.



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Courtesy: BBC  News.


Burundi 'albino killers' arrested 

  
Many people with albinism are living in fear in  Burundi

At least eight people have been arrested in Burundi in  connection with a 
trade in human body parts from people with  albinism.  
Those detained had fresh body parts in their possession, police  say.  
Witchdoctors in the region tell clients that potions made with  albino body 
parts will bring them luck in love, life and business.  
At least 10 albino people have been killed in Burundi in recent  months and 
more than 40 in neighbouring Tanzania.  
Prosecutor Nicodeme Gahimbare told the AFP new agency that those  arrested 
were "simple farmers" acting as middlemen.  
"They had albino bones with them, some of them still fresh," he  said.  
Mr Gahimbare said that three members of the gang had escaped into  Tanzania 
but he said he was confident that the whole network could be  dismantled within 
days.  
Kazungu Kassim, the head of a Burundi albino association, said the  
authorities were now taking the killing of albinos seriously but more  needed to be 
done.  
"We urge the government to double efforts in protecting albinos,  because 
what we are witnessing here is a planned extermination of the  albino community," 
he said.  
At least 200 people have been arrested over the trade in Tanzania  but none 
have been convicted, raising fears that senior officials  could be involved. 

 
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