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| Burundi: Armed criminals kill 6-year old albino girl |
| 2008-11-19 |
| (SomaliNet) A group of armed criminals have attacked and killed a six-year-old albino girl in Burundi. The attack took place at the girl's home in Bugongo, more than 200 kilometres east of the capital Bujumbura. The girl was decapitated and her arms and legs were cut off. Last month, two other albino people were killed elsewhere in Burundi. Police say the body parts and organs of albinos are sold to 'medicine men' in neighbouring Tanzania, who use them to make amulets. More than 27 albinos, most of them women and children, were killed in Tanzania last year.- |
| Posted by:Fred |