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2018-10-14 at 4:13 AM UTC

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WE SMOOTH African Astronaut

Off the Land.

2018-10-14 at 4:13 AM UTC

#3482

CandyRein Black Hole

Originally posted by CandyRein *puts on glitter glove*

Don’t stop till you get enough !

2018-10-14 at 4:13 AM UTC

#3483

infinityshock Black Hole

2018-10-14 at 4:15 AM UTC

#3484

infinityshock Black Hole

Children are being snatched from their beds as gangs of men roam southern Malawi hunting as demand for albino body parts fuels a surge in attacks and murders leaving people in fear of their lives, the U.N. has said.

The country, which borders Tanzania in the west, has seen a horrific rise in the numbers attacked or killed since January.

Already, there have been six attacks in 2015 - compared to just four over the previous two years.

Victims have ranged from a year old, to 68, with children being snatched from their beds as they sleep.

And just as in Tanzania, it seems the high value of the limbs is driving the trade.

An uncle, among three men facing charges in Malawi for the kidnapping of an 11-year-old Malawian girl in January, revealed he had been offered $6,500 for her body.

It equates to 2,778,425 kwacha - a fortune in a country where the minimum wage is 551 a day.

The recent surge in attacks has pushed the U.N. to speak out on the issue.

'These attacks are often stunningly vicious, with children in particular being targeted,' said Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights.

'Many people with albinism are living in abject fear.'

The U.N. called on regional governments to ensure the criminals behind the attacks are prosecuted.

'They are maybe not doing enough to stop it,' the U.N.'s human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said.

'This is an incredibly vulnerable population in these countries.

'And when you hear these kind of details of gangs of men roaming around, literally hunting down people with albinism simply to make money by cutting off their limbs and killing them, you must question whether enough is being done.'