It is believed that DAR ES-SALAAM - hundreds of albino was killed for the purpose of black magic in Tanzania and albino girls are raped because of a belief that they offer a cure for AIDS, a group of Canadian rightssaid Thursday.
At least 63 albinos, including children, are known were killed, mainly in the remote Northwest of the country.
"We believe there are hundreds and hundreds of murders in Tanzania, but only a small number are reported to the police," Peter Ash, founder and Director of as the same Sun (UTSS), told Reuters.
To believe that if you have a relationship with a young girl with albinism, you will be cure AIDS. Thus he y many girls with albinism who are raped in this country because of this belief, which is a false belief. ?
About 1.4 million Tanzanians among a population of 40.7 million have the HIV virus that leads to AIDS.
Albino hunters kill their victims and collect their blood, hair, organs genital and other parts of the body for the sorcerer's potions say bring luck in love, life and business.
"(It is believed) a person with albinism is a curse." They come from the devil, they are not human, they do not die, they disappear, "said Ash.
Ernest Kimaya, Chief of the Tanzania albino society and a person of the pigment disorder, said social stigma has prevented many young girls of reports of rape, making it difficult to say how many albino had sexually abused.
"These things take place in the Earth." Even killings of albinos started quietly, until the atrocities were finally exposed in public, "Kimaya said to Reuters.
Activists last week reported three murders of boys teens albino of the same family in the North of Tanzania, which had been poisoned and their bones later stripped of their tombs.
The Tanzanian Government said it is determined to stop the gruesome killings, but has been widely criticized for inaction.
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