UN condemns "abhorrent" attacks on Tanzania albinos

GENEVA (Reuters) – Albinos whose body parts are prized by witch doctors are being attacked in rising numbers in Tanzania, with children who are still alive having their limbs chopped off, the top U.N. human rights official said on Tuesday. “I strongly condemn these vicious killings and attacks, which were committed in particularly horrifying circumstances, and which have involved dismembering people, including children, while they are still alive,” Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement. …