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0:02:18 > 0:02:23I first met Josephat and Vedastus in 2006.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Josephat had dedicated his life to opposing
0:02:25 > 0:02:29the discrimination against people with albinism.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Vedastus was a 14-year-old who had been bullied out of
0:02:31 > 0:02:33his local school and rejected by his community.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Two months after I arrived in Tanzania,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41a 35-year-old woman with albinism called Arif was killed.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Witchdoctors were spreading a belief that albino body parts could
0:02:44 > 0:02:46bring wealth and good fortune.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49People were prepared to pay large sums of money to anyone who
0:02:49 > 0:02:52could get them.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Arif's murder marked the beginning of many more albino killings that
0:02:55 > 0:02:58would sweep across Tanzania in the following years.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18When a second person with albinism was murdered, Josephat told me
0:04:18 > 0:04:21he was going to leave his family and travel across the country
0:04:21 > 0:04:25to confront the communities where the killings had taken place.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32Vedastus lives 600 miles away from Josephat, on a remote island called
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Ukerewe, which has one of the highest instances
0:06:34 > 0:06:37of albinism in East Africa.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40People told me this prevalence was due to the minerals
0:06:40 > 0:06:42in the island's soil.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Others believe, many years ago, mainland communities dumped
0:06:45 > 0:06:50people with albinism onto Ukerewe to hide them from the outside world.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41That summer, four more people were murdered
0:11:41 > 0:11:43for their body parts in the lake region.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48Veda's mother decided the island was now too dangerous for her son
0:11:48 > 0:11:50and tried to get him transferred to a school on the mainland.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46In 2008, hundreds of albino children were being placed into
0:14:46 > 0:14:49special schools for their safety. Josephat decided to travel
0:14:49 > 0:14:53to one of the schools in Northern Tanzania to speak with the children.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19CHILDREN CHAT
0:23:43 > 0:23:45By February 2009,
0:23:45 > 0:23:4945 people with albinism had been murdered in Tanzania.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Most of these killings took place
0:23:51 > 0:23:54in the lake region surrounding Ukerewe Island.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05BAND PLAYS
0:28:30 > 0:28:32SINGING STARTS
0:29:58 > 0:29:59THEY BANG DESKS
0:34:40 > 0:34:44Fearing the killings in the lake region could spread to the island,
0:34:44 > 0:34:48Josephat travelled to Ukerewe to speak with the people there.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17PHONE RINGS
0:44:56 > 0:44:58In a western region of Tanzania,
0:44:58 > 0:45:02communities have taken their own action to stop the killings.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04In Kigoma, children and adults with albinism
0:45:04 > 0:45:06were removed from their homes
0:45:06 > 0:45:09and driven to a camp near the Burundi border.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12By early 2010, there were very few people with albinism
0:45:12 > 0:45:14living freely in their own villages.
0:53:10 > 0:53:12FOGHORN BLASTS
0:53:17 > 0:53:20GENERAL CHATTER
0:56:52 > 0:56:55On March 24th, 2012,
0:56:55 > 0:56:57three men entered a hotel room where Josephat was sleeping
0:56:57 > 0:57:00and attempted to kidnap him.
0:57:01 > 0:57:04Local police arrived moments later
0:57:04 > 0:57:07and intervened as Josephat was being forced into a car.
0:57:08 > 0:57:10I spoke to him shortly afterwards
0:57:10 > 0:57:13and he told me he'd thought that this was the end.
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