DEADLY HUNT: ALBINOS IN TANZANIA

United Nations, New York, 19 October 2009 - In Tanzania, albinos - people who lack pigmentation in their skin, hair and eyes - have long suffered discrimination. Recently they have begun living in terror. Rumors about their magical powers are having deadly consequences.

 

 

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