article_snippet: Across many parts of Africa, albinos are killed for albinos body parts, which are then sold to witchdoctors who use albinos for rituals and potions.
article_snippet: Six albinos have been killed in Malawi Malawi since December.
article_snippet: Six albinos have been killed in Malawi since December, according to the Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi.
article_snippet: Boniface Massah, the organisation's director, said Malawian albinos are 'living in fear of being attacked or killed' because of the recent spate of murders.
article_snippet: Belief in witchcraft runs deep in Malawi and albino body parts are often used in rituals.
article_snippet: Even the bodies of dead albinos are sometimes exhumed and sold.
article_snippet: Earlier this week, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein denounced attacks against albinos as 'stunningly vicious, with children in particular being targeted'.
article_snippet: Two women carry Two women albino children on May 5, 2014, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania .
article_snippet: The announcement comes after President Jakaya Kikwete said the ongoing attacks against people with albinism, whose body parts are used for witchcraft, were 'disgusting and a big embarrassment for the nation'.
article_snippet: In the most recently reported attack, a six-year-old albino boy's hand was hacked off with a machete and a six-year-old albino boy mother assaulted as his mother tried to protect a six-year-old albino boy.
article_snippet: And last week a Tanzanian court sentenced four people to death for the murder of an albino woman whose legs and right hand were hacked off with an axe and machete.
article_snippet: President Jakaya Kikwete met with albino activists last week, promising to do more to stop the wave of violence. '
article_snippet: Albinism is a hereditary genetic condition which causes a total absence of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes.
article_snippet: It affects one Tanzanian in 1,400, often as a result of inbreeding, experts say.
highlights_snippet: Across Africa, albinos are killed for Across Africa body parts to be used in rituals .
  