The suffering of albinos and the torment journey in Africa

The British newspaper “Mail Online” published a lengthy investigation about human organ trade and assassination in Malawi and East Africa, which patients with albinism are exposed to and is known as “Albinos” - scientifically - which is a congenital disorder that results in the absence of natural skin pigment; Likewise in the eyes and hair.

The newspaper stated that this work is mostly done by witches or purists who hire men who beat patients from poor and uneducated rural communities to the point of death, and then amputate many of their organs in order to sell them for use in making certain potions and medicines that are sold At huge prices. This trade often thrives before the election season.

This is due to a common belief that the organs of these people with albinism have healing properties and even bring money, fame and influence.

It is an inherited matter since ancient times, covered by legends and tales, contradicting between the curse that society sees as having been inflicted on these by God, so He brought them in this way, and between the certainty that their body has healing and luck.

Thus, they are treated, on the one hand, as a stigma to be eliminated, and on the other, as the source of future happiness.

In a recent investigation by BBC 2, a British doctor, who is also an albino, has uncovered a light on this hideous trade, illuminating its darkness in Malawi.

Dr. Oscar Duke (30 years old) explained why these crimes occur and who is responsible for them exactly. The man visited Malawi and Tanzania, and saw how children suffering from this skin disease “albinism” as well as young people are detained in miserable conditions and guards prevent them from escaping in homes or their own camps.

By exploiting them, these people constitute a way to enrich some by employing their organs in what is believed to earn money, prestige and glory, and since the dose of medicine produced by mixing the devices and limbs of these poor people, it is sold for an estimated 7 pounds.

With poverty and where the farm worker's income does not exceed £72 a year, anything becomes believable.

Kidnappings and murders!

Statistics estimate that about 70 people with albinism have been kidnapped or killed during the past two years, which prompted a United Nations expert interested in this topic to warn that albinos may be at risk of extinction in the East African region, because the problem is now being exported across the border from Malawi to neighboring countries such as Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism in the world.

Doctor Duke says that albinism comes with birth and results from a lack of melanin, which is the chemical responsible for coloring the eyes, skin and hair. Albinism what leads to their deaths.

Studies reveal the prevalence of skin cancer among albinos in Tanzania, where after the age of forty, only 2 percent of people with albinism survive.