PEOPLE living with albinism yesterday
announced their intention to demonstrate peacefully next month to push
the government to intensify the crackdown on criminals who abduct and
kill innocent people whose only ‘fault’ is being melanin deficient.
The National Chairman of the Tanzania
Albinism Society (TAS), Mr Ernest Kimaya, said the demonstrations,
planned for March 2, are a response by the albinism-affected following
the inhuman treatment meted on them spawning over a decade.
He noted with concern that some 76
people with albinism have been killed between 2005/2006 and this year;
appealing for concentrated efforts to tackle the vice.
“We are now arranging the peaceful rally
in which we would also like to meet President Jakaya Kikwete to tell
him the ordeal that people with albinism go through,” Mr Kimaya said on
the sidelines of a meeting between political parties and organisations
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