At least 30 albinos, including a seven-month-old baby, have been killed in Tanzania since March 2008. They are targeted by killers because of the belief that their body parts can make magic potions more effective. As part of the initiative against the killings, a former airline clerk called Al-Shymaa Kway-Geer was appointed to be Tanzania's first albino MP. Ms Kway-Geer says while the issue had garnered international attention, the killings continue. "For two years the killings are continuing. Before, many years back, when an albino was born, they were killed instantly," she said. "But at the moment they're killing them; they need their body parts. They say they'll get wealth through our body parts, which is very, very rude - it's a rudeness." She says she has been unable to find out who is responsible for the killings. "This person must be very strong because whenever the President speaks about these killings, they kill an albino," she said. "I'm asking myself who is behind this, this rude person, this evil person. Who is killing people every day? Cutting their hands." She says all albinos in Tanzania live with the stress of a "non-future". "Wherever you walk on the road you feel that someone will hunt for you. Someone is hunting behind, that is money moving there, because they say we are money, millions of money in our bodies," she said.
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