November 4, 2009
Tanzania’s albinos celebrate death sentences for body part killers
by Jonathan Clayton
The Times
Ngeme Luhagula has not had a peaceful night's sleep since she saw her daughter hacked to death before her eyes two years ago.
"I have endured the torture of living with that pain ever since. The images come and haunt me every night," she told The Times at her village home on the shores of Lake Victoria.
Yesterday she could not suppress a smile when informed that four men had been sentenced to hang for killing a 50-year-old man -- an albino who had the same condition as her 18-year-old daughter, Vumilia.
The men were found guilty of murdering Lyaku Willy and cutting off his head and legs. The verdicts bring to seven the number of people sentenced for killing albinos after the first such convictions in September.
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