BBC News, 14
May 2014
Albinos in Tanzania have become targets for body-snatchers seeking to sell them to witch doctors |
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Two witch
doctors in Tanzania have been arrested after a woman with albinism was hacked
to death, police say.
One of her
legs and several fingers were removed in the attack on Tuesday.
Albinos
have suffered widespread persecution in Tanzania, where witch doctors say magic
potions made with albino body parts can bring good luck.
Such
killings have declined in recent years, but this latest attack has prompted a
human rights group to call for all witch doctors to be banned.
At a press
conference on Wednesday, the group, Under The Same Sun said the current
regulation of witch doctors was clearly not working.
The BBC's
Leonard Mubali in Dar es Salaam says that currently all witch doctors have to
apply for a certificate from the ministry of health and welfare to practise.
The attack
occurred in the village of Gasuma, in Simiyu province - a remote rural area in
the north-west of the country where there have been killings of albinos before,
our reporter says.
The woman's
left leg, two fingers from her left hand and a nail from one of her thumbs were
removed.
According
to Under the Same Sun, which campaigns against the discrimination of people
living with albinism, the last killing of an albino in Tanzania was in February
2013.
In recent
years, the government has been also been trying to address the problem, and an
albino MP was appointed several years ago.
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