People's Daily Online 3 weeks ago

Albinos decry discrimination in Kenya

John Brown Shamallah and his brother Collins Maikuva, who were born albinos, would not be alive today had superstitious villagers convinced their parents to boil them in a pot of steaming water "so that they would become like other normal children." Full Article at People's Daily Online

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  1. We got married very young ... When I started having albino babies [another albino child, the first of the three, died in infancy] I was shocked and I looked for an explanation, but I gave up and just accepted them and treated them the same.
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  2. They are not albinos and they are more common in the whitetail population
    SOURCE: St. Cloud Times 1 month ago
  3. When this takes place there's about a 25 percent chance of the fawn being an albino ... Again, albinos are rare so it doesn't occur very often.
    SOURCE: St. Cloud Times 1 month ago
  4. We saw a group of around 50 black bucks on Sunday morning. But what caught our eyes were the two male albino black bucks, completely white in colour, generally referred as white deers. It is a rare sighting of two albinos in the black buck group.
    SOURCE: Times of India 1 month ago
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