19 face death penalty over albino killings in Tanzania

Attacks are due in large part to widespread superstition in East Africa that body parts of people with albinism carry magical powers that witch doctors claim to harness, or other beliefs that view albinos as cursed or causing bad luck.

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Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Hamad Yusuf Masauni told Anadolu Agency on Saturday that the convicted are among 133 people arrested and charged with killing people with albinism from 2006 to 2015.

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