A disease characterized by a congenital lack of pigment in the skin, its appendages, the iris and pigment membranes of the eyes, is commonly called albinism. The color of body tissues depends on a special substance - melanin, for the normal synthesis of which the enzyme tyronase is necessary. When this enzyme is absent, there is no pigment. White skin and hair in albinos from birth. Albinos are no exception. In most cases, convergent strabismus and decreased visual acuity are observed. There are no effective treatments for the disease. Patients are advised not to expose themselves to sunlight, and when going outside, use light-protective means: tinted lenses, sunglasses, filters. It is not difficult to keep people with such a pathology he althy, but this little black albino (photo below) has almost no chance of living to his fortieth birthday.
Scientists cannot answer the question of why 15 times more albinos are born in Tanzania and other East African states than on average on the planet. The black albino is very vulnerable,because, however wild it may sound, he is the object of a real hunt. "Classic blacks" chop them into pieces, and then eat them like a medicine.
According to ancient belief, albino flesh has healing properties. Local sorcerers and healers even treat AIDS, prescribing dried genitals of a “transparent” relative as a healing drug. The killings of white-skinned blacks are large-scale. There is evidence that since 2006, 71 albino blacks have died at the hands of hunters, and more than 30 have managed to escape from the killers. The excitement of hunters is quite understandable: the flesh of an albino, sold in parts, brings in income, estimated at a very decent amount: from 50 to 100 thousand dollars.
Until recently, cannibals managed to evade responsibility. The kidnapped and murdered black albino was declared "missing", and the authorities did not attempt to search for him and punish the criminals. However, the brutal practices in Tanzania caused and continue to cause outrage in the West, so the authorities had to deal with the punishment of hunters for people. Relatively recently, in 2009, three men were sentenced to death for capturing and hacking to pieces a 14-year-old white-skinned youth. It was the first trial of cannibals that forced them to change tactics. From now on, a captured Negro albino has a chance to stay alive, although he is badly crippled - without arms and legs. Human hunters switched to chopping off the limbs of albinos, which, if caught, threatens them with 5 to 8 years in prison forgrievous bodily injury.
Let's give a few more sad statistics. 90 albinos over the past 3 years have been deprived of limbs, three of them died from their injuries. The reason that only 2% of Tanzanian blacks with a diagnosis of albinism survive to the age of 40 is not only their extermination for the sake of eating. In conditions of poverty, it is difficult to ensure the preservation of vision, which albinos, who have barely reached adolescence, lose 60-80%. The probability of getting skin cancer for an albino at the age of 30 is 60%. Residents of one of the poorest countries on the planet, born with a diagnosis of albinism, need support from the civilized world community.
