ALBINOS
ALL ALBINOS ARE BORN LEGALLY BLIND
in tanzania people with albinism are hunted like animals
they aren’t considered human children+babies murdered
grisly butchery body parts in witch doctor’s potions bring
luck love +success to countrymen there is even a booming
cross-border trade
mwigulu matanange 10 is the saddest person in the country
he hasn’t spoken a word since his mutilation in February t-shirt
gaping hole where arm used to be buyers of potions rich+powerful
(even politicians!) 225 witch doctors arrested so far this year all
released days later
an election in the offing demand increasing 3 children one village
missing vivisection suspected a year old’s hand found on the road
to nowhere June 13 2015 1st albino awareness day
use your eyes +hands write the foreign ministry +ask them to support
ending these atrocities night is falling in tanzania phantom limbs tingle
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Spring 2015
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