Posted on 03/16/2009 4:55:22 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BUJUMBURA, March 15 (Reuters) - Burundi has arrested eight people found with human bones suspected of belonging to albinos, a government official said on Sunday.
The tiny east African nation and neighbouring Tanzania have been convulsed by a spate of ritual albino murders fuelled by a body parts trade. Witchdoctors tell clients that albino parts will bring them luck in love, life and business.
"Before arresting them, we did a search and found human bones in their houses," said Nicodeme Gahimbare, a public prosecutor in the eastern Ruyigi province.
"The eight were denounced by two other detained people who have already confessed to killing two albinos," Gahimbare said.
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And I bet they Vote too.
This racist behavior must stop!
Could this be a “Hate Crime” or just plain old ordinary cannibalism?
Isn’t Apartheid wonderful??
No wait.....
Wait a minute.....no.
That came out all wrong.
I don't know about that.
Personally, I like to vacation in areas that are free of gingers/"day walkers".
Plus, I hear the civil war is breath-taking in the spring.
I went out last Friday and found a girl I liked, took her home and then went to the medicine cabinet. What to choose: I had one Viagra and a combination vial of one part Albino bone, two parts dried pygmy skin, a dash of black rhino horn and two gorilla eyelids. I chose the latter and boy did I last.
doesn't your girlfriends always make sure you have albino bones before letting you pass third base?
Isn’t that a line from Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights”?
They’ll pay top money for Michael Jackson
I wouldn’t have any idea.
I saw a documentary on TV last year, this white reporter regularly risked his life by going out and interviewing street thugs in Johannesburg that specialized in stealing human organs and selling them on the black market.Their biggest customers were the Chinese syndicates.
The “organ harvesters” would get a list from their clients, a shopping list,..kidney, liver, eyes etc..and go out an attack/kidnap their targets.
Sometimes they would take the organs and kill immediately, other times they would leave the victims clinging to life.
Most “harvesters” were in their late teens or early twenties. The reporter had befriended some and gotten to know them pretty well..........The thugs were fairly matter of fact about their business and considered it a legitimate vocation.
It seems that some cauaasian tourists could easily be mistaken for albinos.
People like to keep their livers and other package assets.
Now, they're a protected species.
Figures.
They weren't very lucky for the albinos. Just sayin...
especially if you're an albino on vacation there.
I think they need to arrest the witch doctors, and keep them permanently locked up and incommunicado. In that part of Africa, there are hundreds of thousands of idiots who will believe anything some “witch doctor” tells them, and act on it. Arresting the idiots is like trying to fill a bathtub with a slow drip while the drain plug is leaking.
Two cannibals were lounging in front of the roasting pot, they had just finished eating a clown. One looked over to the other and asked "did that guy taste a little funny to you?"
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