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Our friends over at Xenophilia posted an article from BBC about a recent spate of murders of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania. Between the two countries, at least 50 African albinos have been murdered in the last couple of months.
The concentration of albino populations in some African nations is nearly 20 times that of the United States, and despite the political and social successes of some…
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