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on your you know him on all my kind of film my story with no one. i remember when i was born. my mother was the community members who poison. if you are in the village like my really and then you have the kind of which are you have for sure. you have to suffer. to be born with going to zoom in tanzania is friday. because. people think we do not to die. people being on t.v. and people are being chopped up. we are being isolated today because of
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skinny. people used to cause that with them which means. yes yes yes yes. yes. moody sometimes i'm scared to go there it's still very scary did a good move. to blue is paralyzed with anxiety every time she has to leave a school campus as it instantly takes a back to an event that happened three years ago. i was walking was my sister when a car stopped beside us and the men stared at me through the window then two days before they attack another man came to. house and asked for some water my parents
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gave him water and asked where he was from but he didn't reply he didn't look like one of the locals but he didn't say anything three days later three men broke into our house at the first who was the one who'd stared at me from the car the second was the one who'd come for water and i didn't recognise this art it was about nine thirty they knocked but my mother didn't answer the door so they keep to down and told her not to scream they were looking for money and mum suggested that they take the bicycle they just left after that their tax me and cut off my hand one of them brought gasoline over and told mom to cauterize the wound. on the. home for the.
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attack may actually have been shorter a better future than most i'll be you know africans after that act of violence kabbalist parents sent to a special camp for albion no children where international aid organizations helped her to move on to a prestigious school by tanzania instead it's a time that ends next year. josaphat toner and his colleagues are in a long country drive from tanzania as largest city in dar es salaam to lake victoria the region whether a mini albion a community is torn i was born there himself it is that ghana because i needed to drive really on that and do you know is there. you know because of the situation because of this situation crumbling sometimes is very nice. they meet their first i'll be you know in search of help before even leaving the city in the so.
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they meet a teenager who's begging for money from passing drivers stuck in daraa salaams never ending traffic jams why are you here don't you know how bad it is be to stand out in the sun for such a long time i know. i'm alone and need money to live. many people with is in want. and they're being disconnected from so sad and sometimes you can see even this guy when he was making. every day at school is the same for the l.b.o. children they wake up early eat breakfast go for lessons and have lunch and dinner one of the three campus gods will be sure to lock the gates at six every evening there are one hundred students in this boarding school or with similar backgrounds they were all born in what's come to be known as the lakes
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a rule area in northern tanzania close to the majestic lake victoria all were born with albinism a condition characterized by the total absence of the skin pigment melanin that's why these people have such pale skin and tend to have paul vision. it's really astonishing for me people around here generally don't talk about it at all much but i can't stop wondering i keep asking why does it happen i mean most of the parents who send their children here don't usually come back again ever not even to visit or check that everything is fine with their kids there's an old superstition here about having one and i'll be no child living in your house i think it's a curse that it's bad luck to be honest a lot of people who believe that sending their child to a school will lift discourse something. the result. is that whether they've got that they're only going to go call me up i
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want to. the son is sixteen years old he's one of the oldest students here at the special camp for albion no children. my name is. i'm from. i've been living here as a refugee since two thousand and nine because it's the only place where i can be safe. i got here doing a rise in the persecution of people things are really dangerous my parents found out about this into from the media you know and they decided to send me to this camp. if that. was a sound finished elementary school long ago and should have left this educational institution but somehow the teenager persuaded the authorities to allow him to stay and now he works every day as an assistant to a primary school teacher. who was orphaned last year
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has no illusions about what he could expect beyond the protected boundary of the camp have to give my parents saw that their baby was not you know they were completely shocked when they asked the doctors what was wrong with mean they just wanted to figure it out. one of the doctors in the hospital explained that this is a normal condition actually. my mother loved me a lot you know and when i went to school i cause a lot of trouble or a lot of problems for her. because my classmates are really frightened of me they're too scared even to touch me. they said that if they touched me i'd just start bleeding or maybe even just disappear completely. doesn't it has a high l.b. you know population only around one in twenty thousand babies is usually born with this rare pigment deficiency but in east africa it's eight times the number of
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people born with melbourne abnormality is estimated at one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand in the more remote regions of tanzania a white skin child represents a stigma on the whole family and on top of that low education levels still mean that superstitious villages associate people with an almost medieval variety. if irrational fears. will be blown off and or if your hardware different. in the africa especially. and then you are there for the fall of the ones those. block rudy is and. many people. didn't understand where about the news people forward. idea because sometimes people thought oh i'm
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a mess of human beings. i was. a. little. polkinghorne of. the start of the twenty first century so a widespread break out in l.b. no hunting according to official information dozens of white skin victims were reported killed every year but the real number is likely to be much higher considering that many of the attacks were never reported to all recorded by the police the victimization always followed the same person. so tell me how did it happen. the it was about eight thirty in the evening on july twenty sixth two thousand and nine the dogs outside the house started barking when i was putting my daughter to bed at eight forty someone started knocking down the
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door when you three men broke in and grabbed my husband they were carrying two machetes and an axe they told me not to scream or they'd kill me then they made it he started chopping my husband into pieces right there in front of me one of them cut off his ear another cut of his leg it was as if it weren't butchering it one of the kids started screaming and the man yelled shut your child up i will kill your neighbors who. no one came to help everybody was just too scary. gruesome death to raise five children. she left her house and settled for a mud hut a year ago the police called a criminal investigation and found the man suspected of her husband's murder. three of them during the court hearing that explains that he had instructed them to deliver various body parts. if. this is.
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for five years at the boarding school for africans his whole world is within the campus everything he fits easily into this. today his regular unsettled daily routine has been disrupted. we have in these. again. so. shocked by the way being murdered in the two thousand. insist that situation
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the government had to sit up a number of camps where these children would be taken care of and these just center is one of such centers with a population over boat two hundred forty eight should do and we thought would be nice and. what do we are missing now is inclusion and value for you send me to that time today sure it is the next exclusion because what i would like to live like other people the way how they live in the community but we are missing we are living you know if you see children children with ill because i'm on in the camp so really o'connell to believe isn't a believable story but is true story. if
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it. does she don't consume you ten seconds with dealing with this hang up on the person in that equal distances wasn't what he was just. going to. get so don't. tell him to. deal with that to those.
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who know. my name is just for. never who do you think i am looking well i'm white and he's black but i'm a human being too just like you your ghost. doesn't give me
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a ghost yeah your ghost. touch my hand does that feel like the hand of a good. josaphat is visibly upset he had hopes that in his home village people would be more tolerant and better informed but he soon learns that the attitudes of modern schoolchildren towards l.b.o. children have barely changed from the superstitious stereotyping josaphat had to endure as a child. this is their school where. i go or not where. i started from standard one with standard to say even when i was here i was alone many children. didn't know what is the i've been so sometimes i wanted to play with. bots they're around. because they were told that. you know. you see
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a cause. this is where i live it's my corner do you want to see where i sleep a tiny two square meter spot of land in the open air is what fifty year old so you'd calls home for three years he's been forced to live with his sister and at her expense because he can no longer find work so you just become virtually disabled simply by the color of his skin it was in two thousand and ten i was collecting dry branches from the forest when two massai men came up and asked if i had any tobacco i did have some with me and when i bent down to pick up my tip. they hit me on the back of my head with a stick they hit me three times two strikes to the back of my head and then they
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punch me in the face i was knocked out and when i came round i saw that my left hand was gone. saeed's attackers were never found his severed left hand was probably traded on the thriving underground market where i'll be no body parts a highly valued by local witch doctors. people where. you're becoming rich. people with albinism. intends anea witch doctors or traditional halos are endowed with enormous power and
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authority people will turn to them for all kinds of everyday advice no one will ever know which first suggested that making a potion with an l.b. in his bones could cure any disease make someone rich or ensure good fortune but the barbaric practice spread rapidly throughout the lakes and in the twenty first century. during their travels joseph and his colleagues had the rare opportunity to talk to mrs juma one of the region's most powerful and influential witchdoctor as. his body is said to be possessed by the spirits of handel departed grandmother whenever she falls into a trance and so here she claims to be speaking on behalf of a grandmother.
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oh. well how low you all these witch doctors a liars of course i know that there are a few of them who do indeed say bring me and i'll be knows how to do and i'll be nosier now make you rich but this is not magic this is just fraud. but i never told any of them to do so they made it up themselves now they make money out of it. personally i only use traditional magic and for our craft we never use methods like that. i'm. a girl used to live in this house she was just two years old when she died of malaria undertakers at the local cemetery refused to bury her there because they were scared that if anyone raided her grave they'd be held to blame and so the
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parents had to bury her inside their home when asked they just said that they don't bury their daughter a long time ago and wouldn't say where that was because shortly before this in the neighboring village and grave was dug in the body was dismembered. also lived in a small village for several years he remained in constant fear. beano was mutilated in my village and had his leg cut off i was really scared for my own protection my family decided that i should sleep under granddad bed at night instead of my own bed it was awful i always carried a machete with me but i didn't really have any problems.
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joanie is by local standards an independent and wealthy man he has a big house a substantial family and a lot of cattle john is used to being self-reliant and when he heard rumors that the locals were hunting al beanos he was ready to protect his own white skinned children. and. i was prepared to defend my children with the help of this. in two thousand and seven when lucas was still a little strange man visited the neighbors and asked about a white child and where he was living but they didn't tell him anything. they want to and never came back but i was so terrified so worried that i used to keep my spear a machete at my side at all times. in addition to the head hunters and witch doctors also face another eternal enemy the sun.
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because of the lack of pigmentation desk and has no protection from harmful ultraviolet light. statistically eighty five percent of wellbeing those will die before reaching the age of forty. most willful fix them to skin cancer. for me the disease started a few months ago first it was no more than a small tumor a bit like a mall i barely even noticed it at first and then it started growing really fast and now as you can see it's turned into this lump i went to see the local doctors and. they only said it was some kind of information it was only a few months after that that they finally told me that i needed to come here but i didn't have any money to pay for travel i got here two days ago.
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this hospital was the only clinic in the whole country able to use modern methods to treat skin cancer. chemotherapy the treatment is free but relatively few will be those can make the journey. now we see an increase in the number of cases. they come on. six month. after dinner plans to venture outside the camp he has a little money after some generous visitors have been to see him he wants to spend it at the local market his shopping list includes a new key ring sandals and a manchester united t. shirt his favorite football team.
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until evening. sets he'll study english. in the. hopes that knowledge will be useful because sooner or later he knows he'll have to leave the camp as he drifts on. to sleep his dreams are just the same as many other african children one day the son wants to be rich. yet i can't imagine what my future will be like when i leave the camp but i would very much like to become a businessman. because i i need some started money for this but i'm an orphan and unfortunately i'm not a very good terms with my other relatives. their shame to me because of the color of my skin i have nowhere to go i thought of becoming resistant but that's not likely to work out. to billow will finish school than
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a year and has to make an important life decision. dreams are not the same as her. she does want riches she dreams of justice. i want to be a lawyer and help other people like me other i'll be honest to protect them. the three men who attacked kabul are in seven her arm arrested. she saw them in court and now says she's forgiven them. i was sitting directly opposite them and they didn't say a thing i also kept my silence i know that they only did what they did to escape poverty only wanted was some money i looked at them and i felt sorry for them.
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big question we minimize we need to move this very as we know we have first means of disconnection. the community that we're. i agree to support people. in the education field but if not to education for sure these group of student behind the wall. joseph returns to doris along to his long trip through the lakes he plans to go back to the north again after a while he sees educating people and giving lectures as his mission in life and never tires of repeating the same facts over and again. doesn't it.
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my bra. doesn't mean that you fly card maybe my blood would it would be blue all yellow not my car. was a force to me. in my home country because of my god what i'm looking as a justified i'm not just. horn
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dog may not only be tasty but also dead to the ship between kids it was suggested well and a fairly strong one there were two thousand rats in the balt in the study it's a very extensive study done by a well respected scientist. do chemicals that down the advertising really increase the risk of cancer and i chose a means of known to infuse damage in the launch into a shared skepticism they do not believe that risk is is truly by
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predict how things will be called. social environment. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is serial is exceptionally sick. no wonder it's. years old industrial giants reap the benefit. caused by chemical production. as if these people are. just experimental animals. the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed
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what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. to. the presumed death toll following the deadly blaze in the west london and i was reached fifty eight protests escalate calling for u.k. prime minister to resign to resign. but afghan official says u.s. forces upon the shooting of three civilians including two children in the country this week we're exclusively from the victim's family and get reaction from eyewitnesses. the government with extreme republican views goes on a shooting rampage in the u.s. in the wake with the speculation the tense political situation right now in america could be his main.

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