NationStates Jolt Archive


Witchdoctor killings condemned

Dyakovo
03-04-2008, 19:59
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete has condemned witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity.
linkyness (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0320755620080403?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&sp=true)

What do you generalites think?


I can't help but wonder why this wasn't already considered bad?
Bann-ed
03-04-2008, 20:03
What do you generalites think?


I can't help but wonder why this wasn't already considered bad?

The part you quoted in the OP is confusing me.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete has condemned witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity.

Did the President condemn them in the hope that it will bring prosperity, or do the witchdoctors kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope that it will bring prosperity?
Dyakovo
03-04-2008, 20:05
The part you quoted in the OP is confusing me.



Did the President condemn them in the hope that it will bring prosperity, or do the witchdoctors kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope that it will bring prosperity?

The latter...
Or maybe both?
Dundee-Fienn
03-04-2008, 20:06
The part you quoted in the OP is confusing me.



Did the President condemn them in the hope that it will bring prosperity, or do the witchdoctors kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope that it will bring prosperity?


"Sometimes, word spreads around that body parts of people with certain physical attributes like bald people or albinos contribute greatly to attaining quick prosperity," Kikwete said in a monthly state of the nation speech late on Wednesday.

et voila
Intestinal fluids
03-04-2008, 21:20
They need to step up the albino sacrifices. The place is still a shithole.
Lunatic Goofballs
03-04-2008, 22:01
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Those organs certainly didn't do the albinos any good, did they? :p
Intestinal fluids
03-04-2008, 22:30
270,000 albinos in a country of 39 million? In the US we have 330 million and i havnt seen an albino in like 10 years. Whats up with that?
Greenribbons
03-04-2008, 23:03
Greenribbons!
Forsakia
04-04-2008, 00:02
270,000 albinos in a country of 39 million? In the US we have 330 million and i havnt seen an albino in like 10 years. Whats up with that?

They're less noticeable when the majority of the population is white?
Dyakovo
04-04-2008, 00:58
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Those organs certainly didn't do the albinos any good, did they? :p

Obviously not... :(
Kyronea
04-04-2008, 01:03
270,000 albinos in a country of 39 million? In the US we have 330 million and i havnt seen an albino in like 10 years. Whats up with that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino

About 1 in 17,000 human beings has some type of albinism, although up to 1 in 70 is a carrier of albinism genes.
Yes you have. You just haven't noticed it.
Nili
04-04-2008, 01:12
You don't notice them because they walk among us in disguise, like the bodysnatchers! Seriously though, if killing albinos was helping them, they wouldn't all still be in Tanzania.
Call to power
04-04-2008, 01:34
why not just set up a program to harvest albino Kidneys? everybody wins! :)

*in B4 MJ reference*
Intestinal fluids
04-04-2008, 02:24
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino


Yes you have. You just haven't noticed it.

Well i may not be a math genius, but if one in 17,000 people have albinoism in a country of 39 million, them my calculater tells me there should be 2,295 people with albinoism not 270,000!!
Dyakovo
04-04-2008, 02:31
Well i may not be a math genius, but if one in 17,000 people have albinoism in a country of 39 million, them my calculater tells me there should be 2,295 people with albinoism not 270,000!!

That would be on average, obviously Tanzania has more than average...
Gauthier
04-04-2008, 02:32
Haven't you watched The Omega Man and The Da Vinci Code people? We have to kill the albinos before they kill us!

Primitive and barbaric practices like that are often born of desperation.

It's like a rabbit's foot. If it's supposed to be so fucking lucky, then why isn't it still on the motherfuckin' rabbit?
Dyakovo
04-04-2008, 03:22
It's like a rabbit's foot. If it's supposed to be so fucking lucky, then why isn't it still on the motherfuckin' rabbit?

Because the rabbit wasn't smart enough to be able to make use of his luck?
greed and death
04-04-2008, 03:39
That would be on average, obviously Tanzania has more than average...

His question was why is it that Tanzania has a higher then average concentration of albinism.

The answer is in Tanzania people used to believe albinos had special powers. A tribe would never kill an Albino from their own tribe. Instead If an Albino was born they would set him up in a hut with several wives and train him at night to work magic for the tribe. this lead to an increase in albinos because they had a special niche which let them pass their genetic code more often.

why the murders by witch doctors is starting to happen now is the tribal system is breaking down. Albinos are no longer protected by their tribes, and witch doctors have no qualms about killing an albino not of their tribe.