Issues at Stake: Opening the door to hellish forces

TODAY every deviant practice under the sun is not only tolerated, but defended as the absolute right to express individuality and make autonomous choices.

This, while the responsibility of civil society to protect and enforce rights of vulnerable groups such as albinos, hardly cause a ripple of concern.

Albinos all over Africa are hunted down and slaughtered like animals, branded as ghosts and products of incest, and regarded as valuable commodities in the human organ trade.

But only a few lone voices cry for justice.

In contrast, absurd as it may seem, members of the now international Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the so-called ‘Pastafarians’, in Massachusetts, won the right to wear a pasta strainer on their heads in licence photos as their ‘religious regalia’.

Vast amounts of money are spent on ridiculous lawsuits, which undermine the integrity of the justice system.

While albino children are snatched from their mothers’ breasts and have their limbs hacked off alive, pressure groups shoot up in support of a person’s right to be a human pup or a grotesque living sex doll.

People are ‘marrying’ their own children, trees, the sea and pets because it is ‘their right’ to practice their flippant and immoral beliefs, previously called incest, paganism, bestiality and mental illness.

While governments are pressured to acknowledge the ‘rights’ of pederasts and paedophiles, the rights of the elderly, orphans, infants, the disabled and minority groups, seemingly exist only on paper.
Persecution
The persecution of people with albinism is so prevalent in Africa that it is referred to in the abbreviated form, PWA.

In Tanzania, where they have a much higher population representation than other African countries, albinos with hacked off limbs are common.

They are the lucky ones, because they have survived – for the moment.

Witch doctors profit from ancient myths that the hair, blood and organs of albinos possess strong magical powers to attract wealth and favourable election results.

Like with every other fad and get-rich-quick scheme, hordes are ready to jump on the bandwagon to riches paid in blood.

Even in death, they have no rest and their families must bury their mutilated remains inside homesteads to prevent grave plunder.

According to myth, albinos do not die – they simply vanish.

While infanticide, persecution, stigmatization, fear and torture have always been the lot of people with this rare genetic condition, it is unbelievable that human sacrifice continues to thrive in the age of technology, science and education – right on our front door.

If churches, law enforcers, traditional councils, tribal leadership, the media, NGOs and local and provincial governments do not act urgently and collectively against this ominous trend, we are leaving open the door for some hellish forces coming this way.