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From witches to treated trachoma patients
Misanet.com / IPS, 2 August - In the northern Tanzanian district of Shinyanga, it has become a common practice to lynch old women with bloodshot eyes, usually on suspicion that they are witches. Now, newly introduced teaching of communities on how to fight trachoma reduces the withhunt.
http://www.afrol.com/html/News2001/tan008_trachoma.htm
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Here is a picture of the type of person that has been murdered over eye color.
http://www.emergingcity.com/images/Dagoretti kid red eyes.JPG
Misanet.com / IPS, 2 August - In the northern Tanzanian district of Shinyanga, it has become a common practice to lynch old women with bloodshot eyes, usually on suspicion that they are witches. Now, newly introduced teaching of communities on how to fight trachoma reduces the withhunt.
http://www.afrol.com/html/News2001/tan008_trachoma.htm
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Here is a picture of the type of person that has been murdered over eye color.
http://www.emergingcity.com/images/Dagoretti kid red eyes.JPG