BEFORE KILLINGS SUN WAS THE ENEMY OF PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM

Before these killings, the sun used to be the main enemy of people with albinism due to suffering occasioned by skin disorder which needed , protection from sun damage by using sunscreens and covering completely with clothing when exposed to sun so as to decrease risk of getting skin cancer. Another enemy was discrimination and dehumanization as contrary to Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights which confers and ensures that everyone enjoys the rights and freedom laid down in the Convention and its protocols, irrespective of their sex, race and colour but now there are other physical enemy, the fellow human species, and wise man, with the same blood LET US STOP KILLINGS AND HELP THESE INOCENT WITH THE SAME BLOD GROUPS A, B, AB, O

RIGHT TO LIFE FOR PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM

FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS POSED THE CHALLENGES ON HUMAN RIGHT WATCHERS, BECAUSE IF THERE WERE NO RIGHT TO LIFE IT WOULD BE MEANINGLESS TO HAVE OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS BECAUSE HUMAN RIGHT ARE INHERENT, INSEPARABLE AND INALIENABLE THAT IS TO SAY YOU CAN NOT SEPARATE HUMAN RIGHT FROM HUMAN BEING BECAUSE HUMAN BEINGS ARE BORN WITH THOSE RIGHTS NATURALLY. IT IS THEREFORE UNDERSTANDABLE THAT TO KILL PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM OR OLD WOMEN IS TO SEPARATE HUMAN RIGHTS FROM HUMAN BEING, THEREFORE THIS BOOK APART FROM DEPRECIATING WITCHCRAFT BELIEF, ITS CORE THEME IS TO PROVIDE EDUCATION, BEING ONE OF THE EXCEPTIONAL TOOLS TO END THESE KILLINGS IN TANZANIA. THE FOCUS ON THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM AND OLD WOMEN ON THE GROUND OF BELIEFS IN WITCHCRAFT IN TANZANIA HAS ALSO BEEN DEALT

ALBINISM ACCODING TO GENETIC ENGiNEERS

IN THE FIGURES ABOVE, During albinism, an error occurs in the conversion of phenyalanine into Melanin. SEE CAREFULY IF THERE IS INVOLVEMENT OF WITCHCRAFT FOR FORMATION OF PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM. IT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD THAT IT IS
An error in the biochemical pathway that converts phenyalanine to melanin

SOCIETY SHOULD BE PROVIDED WITH THIS EDUCATION AS AGREED BY GENETIC ENGINEERS, ZOOLOGIST, SCIENTIST.
EVENTUALLY THE KILLINGS WILL END. NO WHERE IN THE DIAGRAM HAS SHOWN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTION OF 2010 AND ALBINO BODY PARTS
In this contxt, it should be understood that; albinism is genetic defect that causes a lack of pigmentation in skin, eyes and hair, can affect all races of human being including animals such as fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.The word is delivered from Latin albus, meaning ‘white’, The lack of the pigment melanin is due to an error in the biochemical pathway that converts phenylalanine to melanin. Depending on the severity of the break, a person with albinism may not always have a pale complexion, white hair and pink eyes.

ALBINO ARE GOD'S CHILDREN

ALBINISM IS NOT THE GHOST SENT FROM EUROPE TO KILL THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OR CONTAINS THE MAGIC POWER WHICH CAN MAKE SOMEONE RICH.THE GENETIC ENGINEERS, ZOOLOGISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, HAVE MADE THE RESEARCH THROUGH SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS AND WRITTEN MANY BOOKS WHICH SHOW AND EXPLAIN IN DETAILS THAT THERE IS NO ANY CONNECTION OF ALBINISM AND SUPERSTITION BELIEF. THEY DID NOT END THERE BUT ALSO THEY HAVE COMMENTED IN THEIR BOOKS THAT PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM ARE NOT EVIL OR NOT FROM THE DEVIL. THEY NEITHER HAVE MAGIC POWER FOR MAKING SOMEONE RICH NOR FORTUNE POWER

ALBINO ARE NOT GHOST

LIFE WAS GIVEN AS GIFT TO GOD AND NOT TO CALL OTHERS THE GHOST SENT FROM EUROPE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESTORYING MEMBER OF FAMILY SO AS TO REPLACE COLONIALISM IN TANZANIA

THIS IS TO RESISIST AND DENY GOD

BACKGROUND TO HUMAN RIGHTS

NOT ONLY SCIENTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS BUT ALSO THE MISSIONARIES IN THEIR BOOKS HAVE COMMENTED THAT, “KILLINGS OF ALBINOS AND ELDERLY WOMEN IS THE HEAVIEST OF SINS. IT REJECTS TRUST AND HOPE IN GOD, AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITY OF REGRET. HUMANKIND HAS ALWAYS BEEN INVOLVED IN AND FASCINATED BY KILLING. SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, KILLERS HAVE EXISTED. THE FIRST RECORDED HOMICIDE IS FOUND IN GENESIS, WHERE CAIN KILLED HIS BROTHER ABEL. THE DEVIL IS THE FIRST MURDERER OF MEN, AND HAS CONTINUAL INSPIRATION TO MURDER, NOWADAYS, HE HAS ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF GREEDY GOLD MINERS, ENTREPRENEURS, FARMERS AND FISHERMEN AND CONTINUE BREAKING THE GOD’S COMMANDMENT WHICH DENOUNCE KILLING THINKING THAT GOD HAS AMENDED OR REPEALED AND CANCELLED THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT WHICH PROHIBITS MURDER. THIS IS THE SAME WAY WHICH HE USED TO ADAMS AND EVE, WHEN SATAN, SAID TO THE WOMAN, "INDEED, HAS GOD SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT FROM ANY TREE OF THE GARDEN'?" THE WOMAN SAID TO THE SERPENT, "FROM THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN WE MAY EAT; BUT FROM THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN, GOD HAS SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT FROM IT OR TOUCH IT OR YOU WILL DIE.'" THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN, "YOU SURELY WILL NOT DIE!” FOR GOD KNOWS THAT IN THE DAY YOU EAT FROM IT YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED AND YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL." WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD, AND THAT IT WAS A DELIGHT TO THE EYES, AND THAT THE TREE WAS DESIRABLE TO MAKE ONE WISE, SHE TOOK FROM ITS FRUIT AND ATE; AND SHE GAVE ALSO TO HER HUSBAND WITH HER, AND HE ATE. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT WAS THAT ADAM AND EVE WERE NOW SINNERS. THEY NOW HAD SIN IN THEIR HEARTS. WHEN GOD CAME DOWN THAT EVENING TO WALK AND TO TALK WITH THEM, ADAM AND EVE HID FROM GOD. THEY WERE AFRAID OF HIM BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT THEY HAD DONE WRONG. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ALBINO AND OLD WOMEN KILLERS, WHEN THEY KILL PEOPLE AND TAKE AWAY THEIR BODY PARTIES THEY START HIDING FROM THE POLICE MACHINERY AND ANGRY PEOPLE WHO ARE EDUCATED AND FIND THE TRUTH THAT IT IS ONLY THROUGH HARDWORKING AND DEVOTING TIME FOR CREATIVITY, CAN LEAD SOMEONE INTO THE SUCCESS IN GOLD MINING, FISHERIES AND OTHER ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. THEY DO NOT ONLY AFRAID PEOPLE BUT ALSO AFRAID THE IMPOSING OF VERY HEAVY PUNISHMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THAT OF DEATH PENALTY. IN TANZANIA THE DEATH PENALTY HAS NOT YET REPEALED AND ACCORDING TO THE PENAL CODE SECTION 195 IMPOSES THE DEATH PENALTY THAT ANY PERSON WHO KILLS

HISTORY OF BURCHERY OF ALBINO IN TANZANIA

Witch doctors started claiming that magical potions, using skin, hair, blood, bones, genitals, tongues or limbs of albinos as ingredients, bring wealth to their customers. This is fueled by superstition, poverty, greed and ignorance. These people misdirected themselves on albinism by lacking genetic education. They have the wicked belief that an albino is a ghost sent from Europe that has come to the African families, with the purpose of destroying, cursing and killing members of the family, soon after decolonization so as to replace colonialism which has existed for along time in Africa. This outdated, stupidity superstition belief has caused people with albinism to be hunted and butchered in East African country. This being the shame and nightmare dreams which has never and will never turned into truth. It will not surprise for the very poor fishermen who weave albino hairs into their nets because they believe they will catch more fish, gold miners, farmers, to give the little they have to the witchdoctors in order to be rich.

FOOTNOTE
It It is in this context the former president of Kenya the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta commented that ‘’If you see a witch doctor, you will invariably find that he is poor. If he says he will make you rich, ask him why he is not rich himself ‘’quoted in WEPMAN, Dennis , Jomo Kinyatta, London, Toronto and New York: Burk e Publishing Company Limited , 1988,p,73’

ANALYSIS OF THE KILLINGS IN TANZANIA

ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL TALLY OF THE GOVERNMENT, 40 TO 60 PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM, INCLUDING CHILDREN, HAVE BEE KILLED AND MUTILATED FOR TRADE OF BODY PARTS. OTHER SOURCES SPEAK OF MORE THAN FIFTY VICTIMS. FOR THE ENTIRE THE PAST FIVE YEARS WITCHCRAFT PRACTICES IN TANZANIA HAS RAISED MANY EYEBROWS WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND LOWERING DOWN THE REPUTATION OF OUR NATION. THIS IS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS MEDIA REPORTS. THE RECENT AND MOST RIDICULOUS WAS A REPORT FROM LAKE ZONE, WHERE A HUSBAND WAS ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO SELL HIS ALBINO WIFE FOR USD 3000. MOREOVER THE LEG OR AN ARM OF PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM CAN FETCH BETWEEN US1,000 AND US$3,000. DESPITE THESE PRICE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY CHOPPING THE ALBINO BODY PART, IS STILL VERY POOR AND LIVING BELOW ONE DOLLAR. IN THIS YEAR 2010,TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CAUGHT SELLING ALBINO BODY PARTS, AND THIS IS THE REPORT BY POLICE IN KAGERA ,WHERE KAGERA REGINAL POLICE COMMANDER(RPC) HENRY SALEWI SAID ‘THE SUSPECTS JACOB PUHILIP FROM MURUVYAGIRA VILLAGE AND BIHAGARA MALU A RESIDENT OF KABANGA, THEY WERE OFFERING THE BODY PARTS AT PRICE OF 600,000TSHS’’.MR SALEWI TOLD THE SUNDAY NEWS OF TANZANIA THAT LAST OCTOBER ,TWO OTHER SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED AT KINANGI ISLAND IN MULEBA DISTRICT LOOKING FOR THE BUYER OF HUMAN BODY PARTS SUSPECTED TO BE OF AN ALBINO. HE CONTINUED TELLING THE SUNDAY NEWS PAPER THAT SIX ALBINOS HAD TO DATE BEEN MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD IN KAGERA REGION DUE TO SUPERSTITION BELIEF.THE KILLINGS HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY NIGERIAN MOVIES. REPORT.

MANY WITCHDOCTORS INTERVIEWED RECENTLY IN LAKE ZONE OPENLY AGREED THAT THEY USE HUMAN BODY PARTS TO MAKE GOOD LUCK CHARMS THAT CAN MAKE THEM RICH AND INSISTING THAT THE ALBINO PARTS ARE THE BEST THOUGH THEY ALSO AGREED TO USE PRIVATE PARTS OF OLD WOMEN.

BACKGROUND TO THE LAWS PROTECTING PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM AND OLD WOMEN

THESE INCIDENCES HAVE SENT SHOCKWAVES TO PERSONS WITH ALBINISM AND MOST CAN NO LONGER WALK FREELY IN THEIR COUNTRIES.IT IS ALSO RECOGNIZED THAT THE EXISTING LAWS PUTS EMPHASIS ON THE ISSUES OF HUMAN RIGHT THOUGH THE TANZANIAN CONSTITUTION WHICH IS THE MOTHER LAW, AS ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 13(6) CONFERS ALL BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS ON FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT. AS THE BACKGROUND TO THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ABOVE IT IS OBSERVED THAT, THE INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS GOVERNMENT AND NON – GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION RECOGNIZED THAT, BOTH PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM AND ELDERLY WOMEN ARE BEING KILLED ON SUSPICIOUS OF HAVING THE MAGIC POWER AND BEING WITCHES RESPECTIVELY. UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL SUCH AS THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHT (UDHR), PROVIDES THE RIGHT AND FREEDOM OF PEOPLE IN ANY COUNTRY THROUGH ARTICLE 13 SUB ARTICLE 1 AND 2. MOREOVER THE RIGHT IS ALSO GUARANTEED UNDER AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE’S RIGHT OF 1983.THIS READS TOGETHER WITH ARTICLE 7 OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS(ICCPR) WHICH BOTH PROVIDES NO ONE MAY BE SUBJECTED TO TORTURE OR CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT. ARTICLE 2 OF EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS, THE RIGHT TO LIFE . THE CHOPPING OF THE PARTIES OF PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM AND KILLING OF WOMEN SUSPECTED TO BE WITCH IS BREACH OF THESE ARTICLES AND HENCE THE PERSON WHO BREACHES THIS LAW THE PENALTY IS DETERMINED ACCORDING TO THE STATUTES AS SEEN IN LATER CHAPTER. LAW ENFORCES AND ENSURES THAT THESE RIGHTS ARE OBSERVED AND ENFORCED BY EXECUTIVES AND RECENT YEARS THE REPORT TELLS THAT ALL THESE PROVISIONS CONFER FULL FREEDOM TO PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM AND ELDERLY PEOPLE BUT THESE GREEDY AND LUST LESS DECAYED HEART TAKE THESE PROVISIONS ON THEIR HAND.

DESPITE OF THE AVAILABILITY OF MANY LAWS ENFORCES AND RELEVANT LEGISLATION, HUNDREDS OF ALBINOS AND OLD WOMEN, ARE BRUTALLY HACKED TO DEATH WITH “PANGAS” OR MACHETES BY PEOPLE WHO ARE LAZY AND DREAMING OF BECOMING RICH.

WITCHCRAFT PRACTICES TO SOME PEOPLE LIVING IN RURAL AREAS

MOST OF TANZANIANS WHO GROW UP IN THE TRADITION ENVIRONMENT WILL, NO DOUBT, KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS MYSTICAL POWER WHICH OFTEN IS EXPERIENCED OR MANIFESTS ITSELF, IN FORM OF MAGIC DIVINATION, WITCHCRAFT AND MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA THAT SEEM TO DEFY EVEN IMMEDIATE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION. PEOPLE USED WITCHCRAFT AS THEIR WEATHER STATION, THAT WITCHES USED TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN FUTURE, FORTUNE TELLING, DISCOVERING ENEMIES AND WHETHER THERE WILL BE GRACE OR HUNGER. AND FOR THOSE EVIL WITCHES THEIR PUNISHMENT WAS TO BE EXILED FROM THEIR VILLAGES TO VERY REMOTE AREAS TO LIVE ALONE. WITCHCRAFT ALSO BELIEVED TO MAKE RAIN. THE RAINMAKER BELIEVED TO LIVE IN CAVES AND DRINK MILK MIXED WITH WATER. PEOPLE GO TO THEM IN PROCESSION, TAKING GIFTS.PART OF THE RAINMAKING RITE INVOLVES BRINGING A SKIN FULL OF WATER TO THE RAINMAKER, WHICH HE DRINKS PUBLICLY. SACRIFIES, OFFERING AND PRAYERS TO GODS ARE MADE. THE RAINMAKER PLAY ROLE OF INTERMEDIARIES OF THE LIVING DEAD AND SPIRITUAL AGENT MOST TANZANIA LIVING IN A VILLAGE CAN TELL AN ALMOST ENDLESS STORIES. TO AN OUTSIDER THEY SOUND MORE LIKE FICTION THAN REALITY.
WHAT IS TAKEN TO BE WITCHCRAFT MAY DIFFER FROM PLACE TO PLACE DEPENDING ON THE CULTURE OF THE PEOPLE AND THE POINT IN TIME IN HISTORY AND DISCUSSION. FOR INSTANCE AMONG THE NYAKYUSA OF MBEYA AND FIPA OF SUMBAWANGA WHEN A PERSON IS ILL HE WILL GO TO THE DIVINER AND ASK HIM “WHAT HAD MADE HIM ILL” THE DIVINER TAKES HIS CUP, RUBS IT ON A STONE, AND WHEN IT IS STOPPED IN CERTAIN PLACE HE WILL SAY “INDEED THE SORCERERS HAVE BEWITCHED YOU. OTHER METHODS OF DIVINATION USING STONE, GOURDS, NUMBERS, PALM READING, FORMING OR SEEING IMAGE IN POT OF WATER, INTERPRETING ANIMAL MARKS, LISTENING TO AND INTERPRETING SOUND .IN A BROADER VIEW, DIVINATION IS BUT A SPECIES OF MAGIC. AND IF MAGIC IS DEFINED , IN ITS MODERN ACCEPTED SENSE, AS THE ART OF EFFECTING RESULTS BEYOND HUMAN POWER BY SUPERHUMAN AGENCIES. IS ALWAYS PERFORMED AS A SORT OF MULTIPARTY CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE TRADITIONAL HEALER, THE CLIENT, AND UNSEEN SPIRITS BOTH OF THE HEALER AND OF THE CLIENT, THROUGH WHICH THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE SECRET KNOWLEDGE, INSIGHT INTO THE FUTURE.



AS SUCH MEDICINE ARE LIKE RADIO SET FUNCTIONING BETWEEN TWO TERMINAL, THE SOURCE ( SPIRITS OR DIVINITIES) AND RECIPIENTS ( DIVINERS OR PRIEST) OF THE BROADCAST. THIS IS THROUGH THROWING BONE, TALKING IN THE GOURD, OR WATCHING THROUGH LOCAL TV.DURING DIVINATION THEY LOSE OR SOMETIMES PRETEND TO LOSE THIR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL SENCES SO THAT THE SPIRIT WORLD THROUGH THEM CAN POP UP INTO THE HUMAN WORLD WITHOUT CAUSING FEAR, DISTURBANCE OR DISGUST AMONG PEOPLE. THESE DIVINERS WORK UNDER PRESUMPTION THAT A PERSON APPEARING BEFORE THEM BOTH HAS A PARTICULAR PROBLEM AND NEEDS MEDIATION FROM UNSEEN SPIRITS THROUGH NEGOTIATING. THE ART OF DIVINATION PRESENT THE CHALLENGE ON THE KILLINGS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. THE DIVINATION IS DIFFICULTY TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS, IT MIGHT INVOLVE THE DIVINERS EXTRA SENSORY ABILITY, IT MAY INVOLVE SPIRITUAL AGENT.THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SOME WHO ACTS AS DIVINERS FOR THE SAKE OF GAIN, AND MANIPULATE CONJURING TRICKS TO GET. BUT THE PEOPLE , BELEVE WHETHER OR NOT THAT THE INFORMATION IS GENUINE NO ONE GOES TO WITCH DOCTORS AND TOLD THAT HE HAS NO PROBLEM.I HAVE NO INFORMATION WHETHER GOD EVER FUNCTION OR COMES INTO THE PICTURE IN THIS MANNAER

ROLE OF MISSIONARIESIN DENOUNCING AND DEPRECIATING WITCHCRAFT

SOME AFRICANS MISDIRECT THEMSELVES ON THE BELIEF OF THE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD, THE SUPREME, THEY COMMENT THAT, HE IS REMOTE AND INACCESSIBLE EXCEPT THROUGH PRIESTS AND ELDERS THAT IS WHY THEY OFFER FOOD AND DRINK IN ORDER NOT TO MAKE THEM ANGRY AND HARMLESS AND TO PREVENT FURTHER DISASTER. THEY CONTINUE COMMENTING THAT, HIS PRESENCE IS SEEN DUE TO ERUPTION OF THUNDER, AND LIGHTENING WHICH SOME TANZANIANS FEAR A LOT. ALSO MOST OF THE SOCIETY BELIEVES THAT THE DEAD ARE STILL LIVING AND COMMUNICATING WITH HUMANS IN VARIOUS SPIRITUAL WAYS SUCH AS THROUGH OFFERING SCARIFIES SUCH AS FOOD, DRINKS SO AS TO CONCILIATE THE MEMBER OF THE FAMILY AND TO BRING GOOD LUCK AND PRAY FOR THE RAIN

SOME ARE DIGGING UP THE REMAINS DEAD BODIES MANY YEARS AGO, BECAUSE THE TRADITIONAL DOCTOR TOLD THEM THAT THE DECEASED IS ONE TO BLAME FOR THEIR ILLNESS REGARDLESS WHETHER THEY WERE THEIR MOTHER OR FATHER. SOME TANZANIANS BELIEVE, WESTERN SCIENCE TO BE IRRELEVANT TO EVERYDAY MISERY AND SUFFERING OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES’ THEY COMMENT ON BY SAYING SCIENCE CAN NOT PROVE ANYTHING ABOUT AFRICANS. IT IS GOT TO DO WITH PLANETS, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND DIGITAL IMAGING. THE HEALER WHO CAN THROW THE BONES TO DIVINE THE NATURE OF THE PERSON’S PROBLEMS, CREATED BY WITCH, IS FAR MORE POWERFUL WHEN IT COMES TO PROVING THINGS ABOUT SELF. THIS OUTDATED BELIEF HAS FUELED THE SPREAD OF ALBINO AND ELDERLY WOMEN KILLINGS IN TANZANIA.

BACKGROUND TO WITCHCRAFTIN TANZANIA

BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT IS UNIVERSAL IN AFRICA AND COMMON ACROSS MUCH OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. MOST SOCIETIES CONNECTED IT WITH LOCAL BELIEFS, SINCE BY THEN BEFORE 1870 ALMOST ALL PEOPLE WERE PAGANS AND THERE WAS NO ANY EXISTING LAW CONCERNING WITCHCRAFT PRACTICES