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Witch Doctors Butcher Tanzania's Albinos for 'Lucky Potions'
As an albino, he used to have to hide from the sun but now he is also being hunted as an ingredient for "lucky potions" to make people rich, a macabre trade for which more than 40 albinos have been slaughtered over the past year.
"Once we were walking down the street, with the albino society's secretary and treasurer, heading to the hospital for a check-up and some builders started yelling 'Deal! Deal!'" said Kapole.
The chairman of the Tanzania Albino Society in the Mwanza region said the men were arrested but a court later let them off, arguing that it could not be established whether they were guilty of abuse.
"There is too much impunity, this is why we live in fear," said the 46-year-old, his pale green irises flickering laterally behind Ray Charles sunglasses and a black felt fedora covering his hay-coloured hair.
Like many albinos in the East African country, he had to quit his job for fear of being kidnapped, murdered and dismembered.
According to local residents, witch doctors use albino organs and bones in concoctions to divine for diamonds in the soil, while fishermen have been known to weave albino hair into their nets hoping for a big catch on Lake Victoria.
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