Albino boy killed in Burundi, witchcraft suspected

[panzerfaust]

Source: MSNBC (Reuters)

BUJUMBURA — A twelve-year old albino boy was killed late on Thursday by armed men in the central Burundi district of Kiganda in what authorities suspect could be linked to witchcraft.

Albino hunters kill their victims and use their blood and body parts for potions. Witchdoctors tell their clients that the body parts will bring them luck in love, life and business.

"The twelve-year-old albino was killed by four men with guns and knives. They cut off his left hand and fled away with it," Kiganda administrator Joseph Ntahuga, told Reuters on Friday...

...A man has been sentenced death by hanging for killing a... five-year-old albino girl in Tanzania by hacking off her legs with a machete and then drinking her blood.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40861535/ns/world_news-africa/#

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Religion in its most elemental form.

[Odin2005]

1. That part of Africa is consumed in religious insanity.

[sakabatou]

2. Oh god...

[UTUSN]

3. Christine O'DONNELL's whereabouts at the time need to be accounted for.... n/t

[Posteritatis]

12. Or some murderers in Burundi had the agency to do that all by themselves. (nt)

[OhioChick]

4. Sickening n/t

[Hissyspit]

5. Horrid. "Hell is other people."

[SkyDaddy7]

6. European & American Christians did the same thing...

Witch hunts for Christ! Praise Jesus!

[Igel]

7. European and American Xians

ripped apart albino boys to make potions?

[Rage for Order]

8. Well, they would do it here if they thought they could get away with it

You know the fundamentalist Christians in the US would love to be able to do that here!

:sarcasm:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. No. They did it for sport.

[Rage for Order]

10. Can you document that particular bit of history?

The part where albinos were hunted down for sport? Or are you just making stuff up?

[harmonicon]

11. It wasn't for sport, it was for religion.

I don't know about albinos specifically, but to this day people all over the world are killing other people in the name of religious belief.

[SkyDaddy7]

13. They had WITCH HUNTS! Their methods of killing said witches did differ...

No I do not think American & European Christians went after albino boys to make potions...However, they did burn alive HUMAN BEINGS because they thought they were witches...Which in my opinion is a far worse way to die.