Unknown attackers broke into the house and slashed the child's mother with machetes before snatching the one-and-half-year-old boy in the northern Tanzanian district of Chato late on Saturday.
"Two bandidos armed with machetes stormed into their kitchen, they hit his mother with machetes and took away the baby," said regional police chief Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the
spokesperson of Godand a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
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The child's father, who was nearby during the attack, is being questioned, he said.
None of this might have happened if the 'folks' were not stuck on an endless cycle of joblessness and poverty. I blame our former colonial bosses.
"We have asked the public for cooperation to arrest the suspects," said Konyo.
Albino body parts are sought after in Tanzania for witchcraft. At least 74 albinos have been murdered in the east African country since 2000, according to the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
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In August, a U.N. rights expert blamed a rise in attacks against albinos on looming presidential elections, due in October 2015, leading political campaigners to turn to influential sorcerers for help.
Albino body parts sell for around $600 in Tanzania, with an entire corpse fetching $75,000, according to the U.N.
Also referred to as 'Muti' or medicine murder.