"There is violence the real revolution that changes the world, but the quiet light of truth," he said Sunday morning, Benedict XVI, who as Bishop of Rome visited the parish of his diocese dedicated to Saint Maximilian Kolbe. These words are read back to mind yesterday on "The Daily Compass "in recent days that began publication on the web (I will recommend: here ) this reasoning Anna Bono on a" small "but very important news. In Tanzania a parliamentary newly-elected is in danger according to police, both men suspected they follow their movements and feared for his life. Because it happens all the time in Africa that political confrontation from degenerating into violence - and the results of the election dispute, they are often the cause - the news is not sensational than those who travel the world, but rather in this case it should, since the victory of Salum Khalfan Bar'wani, candidate policies of the minority party last October by the United Civic Front for the southeast district of Lindi, is an achievement of historic significance for his country and perhaps the entire continent.
Bar'wani it is the first albino in Tanzania to take on an important political office by popular demand and that is why risk your life. To understand why, we must know that in Africa who is albino, besides having to deal with every day problems arising congenital absence of the pigment melanin in the skin, eyes, hair and fur, is condemned to a life to be rejected . Having a family albino is seen as a stigma. Children with albinism often are not even sent to school and family live on the edge, barely tolerated. With great experience discrimination of all kinds, from employment opportunities, and almost always this forces them to live on charity and hand to mouth, alone.
is a ruthless behavior that has deep roots. The traditional African societies consider the events with concern and suspicion, fearing it will result by judging the sign of disgrace or sins committed by those who are the bearer or his family.
In the case of albinos for most is a widespread belief that their own blatant and irremediable diversity represents a resource, if the provision of witchcraft, an institution cornerstone of tribal societies. It is believed that their organs and their body parts, turned into amulets and potions, to ensure whoever is in possession of success in work, wealth, love, health, the realization of every desire. Therefore, abducted or sold by brokers from their families, were killed and delivered to the sorcerers who shall dismember and skin him to perform their magic. The traffic does not spare even children, and transnational. There are, for example, numerous cases of albinos in Tanzania kidnapped or captured and used in Uganda to Kenya to bring them in Tanzania.
In the latter country the phenomenon has spread extensively, the cases of albinos are killed in the hundreds and some years, the government tries to remedy this. The police have been ordered to hunt down witches who commissioned the murder, is an association founded to defend and improve living conditions, the Company Albina of Tanzania, and in 2008 the president, Jakaya Kikwete, has Parliament appointed an albino, Al-Shaymaa Kwegyir.
With this gesture was launched a dual message: the official condemnation of contempt and fear against albinos and the assurance of a government commitment to ensure them a safe life and equal opportunities. But everyone knows that in Africa the goal of fundamental rights as formulated by the developed Western Christian civilization, is still distant. Among the people recognized the value of every human being and existence of rights of the human condition, so universal and inalienable, proceeds at a slow pace, still opposed by tribal institutions that confer the supreme value to the community, not the person they depend the rights of each of its status, mostly determined by factors such as gender and seniority attributed to birth, and therefore require as right and proper, a necessary condition of good living, behavior elsewhere considered discrimination and violations of human rights.
So the election of Salum Khalfan Bar'wani - selected overcoming prejudices and fears - deserved a more prominent place: because it is a radical cultural shift in favor of a different conception of the human and social relations in which he opposes those who are threatening his life.
Bar'wani it is the first albino in Tanzania to take on an important political office by popular demand and that is why risk your life. To understand why, we must know that in Africa who is albino, besides having to deal with every day problems arising congenital absence of the pigment melanin in the skin, eyes, hair and fur, is condemned to a life to be rejected . Having a family albino is seen as a stigma. Children with albinism often are not even sent to school and family live on the edge, barely tolerated. With great experience discrimination of all kinds, from employment opportunities, and almost always this forces them to live on charity and hand to mouth, alone.
is a ruthless behavior that has deep roots. The traditional African societies consider the events with concern and suspicion, fearing it will result by judging the sign of disgrace or sins committed by those who are the bearer or his family.
In the case of albinos for most is a widespread belief that their own blatant and irremediable diversity represents a resource, if the provision of witchcraft, an institution cornerstone of tribal societies. It is believed that their organs and their body parts, turned into amulets and potions, to ensure whoever is in possession of success in work, wealth, love, health, the realization of every desire. Therefore, abducted or sold by brokers from their families, were killed and delivered to the sorcerers who shall dismember and skin him to perform their magic. The traffic does not spare even children, and transnational. There are, for example, numerous cases of albinos in Tanzania kidnapped or captured and used in Uganda to Kenya to bring them in Tanzania.
In the latter country the phenomenon has spread extensively, the cases of albinos are killed in the hundreds and some years, the government tries to remedy this. The police have been ordered to hunt down witches who commissioned the murder, is an association founded to defend and improve living conditions, the Company Albina of Tanzania, and in 2008 the president, Jakaya Kikwete, has Parliament appointed an albino, Al-Shaymaa Kwegyir.
With this gesture was launched a dual message: the official condemnation of contempt and fear against albinos and the assurance of a government commitment to ensure them a safe life and equal opportunities. But everyone knows that in Africa the goal of fundamental rights as formulated by the developed Western Christian civilization, is still distant. Among the people recognized the value of every human being and existence of rights of the human condition, so universal and inalienable, proceeds at a slow pace, still opposed by tribal institutions that confer the supreme value to the community, not the person they depend the rights of each of its status, mostly determined by factors such as gender and seniority attributed to birth, and therefore require as right and proper, a necessary condition of good living, behavior elsewhere considered discrimination and violations of human rights.
So the election of Salum Khalfan Bar'wani - selected overcoming prejudices and fears - deserved a more prominent place: because it is a radical cultural shift in favor of a different conception of the human and social relations in which he opposes those who are threatening his life.
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