I cannot believe such barbaric beliefs and acts still exist in 2015! Things like this make me lose faith in humanity. How can one human being treat another like this because of wealth. Read excerpts of report from Daily Mail below.
Tanzania's albinos are being 'hunted down like animals' as greed for money and influence drives families to turn on their own loved ones in a trade allegedly fuelled by some of the country's most powerful people. It is believed albino body parts will bring a person wealth, or luck - and for that, people are willing to pay as much as $3,000 or $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 - about £50,000 - for the 'full set', a whole body. People with albinism are regularly attacked by people who chop their limbs off - an act which either leaves them severely mutilated, or dead.
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