No justice in Zambia for survivors of attacks against people with albinism: Human rights activists are concerned that the economic depression from Covid-19 and the growing cost-of-living crisis has led to an increased willingness to engage in such attacks
One night in May last year, Kabwe Musonda, her two children, and her mother had just gone to bed when she heard a knock. Male voices claimed to be Zambian police searching for drugs.
Two months after Jamimah’s attack, unknown men assaulted nine-year-old Sinya Lwanja in the Chasefu district in Eastern Province. They have never been caught. The boy is also lucky to be alive. No arrests have been made in Lwanja’s case. Four suspects were arrested in connection with the attack on Jamimah with the help of her grandmother, who told the police she recognised a T-shirt worn by one of the attackers.
Keita Coumba Makalou, the co-founder and executive director of the Salif Keita Global Foundation, which advocates for the rights of people with albinism, described the treatment of Jamimah’s case as a “whitewash of justice”.
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