TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JEAN-MARC MOJON

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JEAN-MARC MOJON Albino children take a break on January 25, 2009 in a recreational hall at the Mitindo Primary School for the blind, which has become a rare sanctuary for albino children. In February 2008, five-year-old Mariam Emmanuel was slaughtered in her bedroom, the youngest victim of a string of murders which has left 43 albinos dead in a year, not counting the newborns killed by their own parents. According to local residents, witch doctors use albino organs and bones in concoctions to divine for diamonds in the soil, while fishermen have been known to weave albino hair into their nets hoping for a big catch on Lake Victoria. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)