article_snippet: Four people have been sentenced to death in Tanzania after  brutally murdering a young albino woman in order to harvest a young albino woman body parts as good luck charms.
article_snippet: There is no guarantee the death penalties will ever actually be carried out, however, as the east African nation has had a moratorium on executions for the past 21 years.
article_snippet: The conviction comes just days after Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete promised to end a wave of killings of albinos, saying the witchcraft-related murders are shaming Tanzania.
article_snippet: : More than 40 albinos have been killed in Tanzania since 2007 - but Tanzania insists Tanzania is taking action to end the witchcraft-related murders .
article_snippet: Activists say attackers have killed at least 75 albinos in Tanzania since 2000 to use Activists body parts in rituals. '
article_snippet: I believe that with close cooperation between the government and society, we will succeed in ending these killings of persons with albinism and rid our nation of this shame.'
article_snippet: There are about 200,000 albinos in Tanzania, most of about 200,000 albinos in Tanzania easily recognisable as about 200,000 albinos in Tanzania lack pigment in about 200,000 albinos in Tanzania skin, eyes and hair.
article_snippet: Similar beliefs exist in other African societies, but activists say attacks on albinos are particularly prevalent in Tanzania, where one in every 1,400 people is affected, compared with one in 20,000 in the Western world.
article_snippet: Activists say attackers have killed at least 75 albinos in Tanzania since 2000 to use Activists body parts in rituals .
article_snippet: But President Jakaya Kikwete said President Jakaya Kikwete had agreed to meet albino leaders next week to discuss possible solutions to the killings.
article_snippet: President Jakaya Kikwete said more than 40 albinos have been killed since 2007 but insisted that President Jakaya Kikwete government was taking action to end the murders.
highlights_snippet: All four now face execution as Tanzania cracks down on albino murders .
  
highlights_snippet: 75 people suffering from albinism have been brutally murdered in the east African nation over the past 15 years .