Tanzanian albino boy found mutilated

[muriel_volestrangler]

An albino toddler missing since Sunday has been found dead in northern Tanzania with all his limbs hacked off.

Yohana Bahati, aged one, was snatched from the house of his mother, who was cut with a machete.
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At least 74 albino children have been killed this century in Tanzania, where some witchdoctors use albino body parts to make their charms.

Last month the Tanzanian government placed a ban on all witchdoctors in the country. The ban is part of a nationwide operation to clamp down on attacks on people living with albinism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31518397

Indigenous religions can be barbaric too.

[trotsky]

1. And a toddler still missing.

Tanzanian police have offered a reward for information leading to the recovery of Pendo Emmanuelle Nundi, aged four. Police have arrested 15 over her disappearance, including her father.

"Including her father"? Horrific.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. The police are questioning the father in this case too

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/18/kidnapped-tanzanian-albino-boy-found-dead-with-limbs-hacked-off

[trotsky]

3. Perhaps the kidnapping and murder of albinos is politically motivated?

Just throwing it out there since that seems to be the catchall for some, rather than accept religion playing a role.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. non-albinos are an oppressed minority.

That is the obvious dynamic in play here, just as it was in Libya when the oppressed minority-majority class sunni militias there beheaded 21 coptic christian migrant workers, who are of course part of the oppressor majority-minority class in Libya. Without using the filter of horseshit 21st century retro pseudo-marxist neo-colonial class analysis you extremist anti-theists just don't understand the big pictcha.

[edhopper]

5. It's all political

religion doesn't play a role in any event. apparently.

[Dorian Gray]

6. Oh my

That poor child. I can't believe anybody would do that to a toddler. Or to anybody.