Tanzania: 4 Persons Jail For Life Over Cutting Off Albino Arm - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
October 24, 2019
A Tanzanian Court has sentenced four people to lifeimprisonment after they were convicted of cutting-off the arm of a person withalbinism.
According to Judge Richard Mashauri, of the Tanzania HighCourt in Sumbawanga, in the southern highlands the four had intended to sellthe arm to a witch doctor.
The cutting of limbs of albinos and the killings in the eastAfrican nation has been driven by the belief advanced by some witch doctorsthat the body parts of people with albinism have properties that confer wealthand good luck.
The four culprits, who committed the crime on May 14, 2015,are all residents of Mamba ward in Mlele district.
State Attorneys, Simon Peres and Dickson Makoro, for theProsecution, had told the court that the convicts had raided a house of aperson with albinism to kill him, but they ended up cutting off his arm.