http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/07/africa/africa-albino-hunted-bones-malawi/index.html

For Agness Jonathan, every day is a gamble with her children’s lives.

Simple questions like whether they should go to school carry an unimaginable risk of death and dismemberment to satisfy a barbaric demand.
This is because her daughters are living with albinism, a genetic condition resulting in little or no pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes. And this makes them a target.

Agness’ two daughters Agness and Chakuputsa.
It is children like Agness’ who, according to a newly released Amnesty International report, are being hunted like animals in Malawi where their bones are sold in the belief the body parts bring wealth, happiness and good luck.

(More in link)

dv said:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/07/africa/africa-albino-hunted-bones-malawi/index.html

For Agness Jonathan, every day is a gamble with her children’s lives.

Simple questions like whether they should go to school carry an unimaginable risk of death and dismemberment to satisfy a barbaric demand.
This is because her daughters are living with albinism, a genetic condition resulting in little or no pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes. And this makes them a target.

Agness’ two daughters Agness and Chakuputsa.
It is children like Agness’ who, according to a newly released Amnesty International report, are being hunted like animals in Malawi where their bones are sold in the belief the body parts bring wealth, happiness and good luck.

(More in link)

In some African societies twins can run into trouble as well. To some a multiple birth means that your spirit has been consorting with animals at night, cos only animals have litters. Sometimes both twins are killed and the mother rejected or killed as a witch, some times a witch doctor will intercede and take one of the twins as his apprentice and sort of bless the mother and cast out her animal spirit so she can remain in the village. Depending on the doctor the twin may live a long life only missing fingers and toes for various fetishes and become a witchdoctor themselves, or go missing presumably entirely used for fetishes.

In all seriousness fakes tans, dying hair and contact lenses perhaps, hide yourself when out in public to potentially save your life.

Cymek said:

In all seriousness fakes tans, dying hair and contact lenses perhaps, hide yourself when out in public to potentially save your life.

on 80c a day? Unlikely.

poikilotherm said:

Cymek said:

In all seriousness fakes tans, dying hair and contact lenses perhaps, hide yourself when out in public to potentially save your life.

on 80c a day? Unlikely.

Richer people paying for it not the villagers

Cymek said:

poikilotherm said:

Cymek said:

In all seriousness fakes tans, dying hair and contact lenses perhaps, hide yourself when out in public to potentially save your life.

on 80c a day? Unlikely.

Richer people paying for it not the villagers

We could make a show called Jande Shore, it’d be like Jordie shore…but poor.

poikilotherm said:

Cymek said:

poikilotherm said:

on 80c a day? Unlikely.

Richer people paying for it not the villagers

We could make a show called Jande Shore, it’d be like Jordie shore…but poor.

Or Snog, Marry, Kill And Maim

dv said:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/07/africa/africa-albino-hunted-bones-malawi/index.html

For Agness Jonathan, every day is a gamble with her children’s lives.

Simple questions like whether they should go to school carry an unimaginable risk of death and dismemberment to satisfy a barbaric demand.
This is because her daughters are living with albinism, a genetic condition resulting in little or no pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes. And this makes them a target.

Agness’ two daughters Agness and Chakuputsa.
It is children like Agness’ who, according to a newly released Amnesty International report, are being hunted like animals in Malawi where their bones are sold in the belief the body parts bring wealth, happiness and good luck.

(More in link)

Oh, is it April the first again?

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/07/africa/africa-albino-hunted-bones-malawi/index.html

For Agness Jonathan, every day is a gamble with her children’s lives.

Simple questions like whether they should go to school carry an unimaginable risk of death and dismemberment to satisfy a barbaric demand.
This is because her daughters are living with albinism, a genetic condition resulting in little or no pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes. And this makes them a target.

Agness’ two daughters Agness and Chakuputsa.
It is children like Agness’ who, according to a newly released Amnesty International report, are being hunted like animals in Malawi where their bones are sold in the belief the body parts bring wealth, happiness and good luck.

(More in link)

Oh, is it April the first again?

Members of the human race are deluded enough to believe and do such things

I sense a market for fake bones.

• I sense a market for fake bones.

Or real bones from non-albinos marketed as albino bones…

furious said:

• I sense a market for fake bones.

Or real bones from non-albinos marketed as albino bones…

marketed as.. always implies fakery.

Not at all. Marketing just means finding the right angle for gullible people.

Divine Angel said:

Not at all. Marketing just means finding the right angle for gullible people.

Therefore there is nothing honest about it.

Divine Angel said:

I sense a market for fake bones.

or even real bones from non-albinos