A new report has just been published by the international organisation Under the Same Sun addressing the torture of people with albinism in Burundi. The report has been submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture, Session 58. People with albinism in Burundi regularly face torture. They are ritually hunted, attacked and murdered. Limbs and digits […]
Child with albinism dismembered in Burundi
The attacks on people with albinism (PWA) continue in Burundi, this time with the killing and dismembering of a five-year-old girl called Cimpaye. Official reports claim that gunmen broke into the girl’s home at around 1am on the 17th of February. The men attacked her parents and took the child. Neighbours were alerted by the parents who went […]