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Twenty-five people with albinism have been murdered in Tanzania since March, a BBC investigation has found.Albinos are targeted for body parts that are used in witchcraft, and killings continue despite government efforts to stamp out the grisly practice, the BBC's Karen Allen says.Once, albinos used to seek shelter from the sun. Now they have gone into hiding simply to survive, after a series of killings linked to witchcraft.In Tanzania, 25 albinos have been killed in the past year.The latest victim was a seven-month-old baby. He was mutilated on the orders of a witchdoctor peddling the belief that potions made from an albino's legs, hair, hands, and blood can make a person rich.Sorcery and the occult maintain a strong foothold in this part of the world, especially in the remote rural areas around the fishing and mining regions of Mwanza, on the shores of Lake Victoria.'We want your legs'The last adult albino to be murdered - just a few weeks ago - was Nyerere Rutahiro.He was eating dinner outside in his modest rural compound, when a gang of four strangers burst in, and threatened to arrest him. As his wife Susannah looked on helplessly, the men began to hack at Nyerere's arms and legs with machetes.
Bill Mahar is in some documentary movie now called Religulous (spelling?) poking at religion and its ridiculous extremes... Bill Mahar, that guy is just so smart and original, I mean, nobody has totally done that before.
