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The persecution has been going on for centuries
A 19th-century researcher, Charles Staniland Wake, documented in 1892 that when he encountered a man with albinism in one of his travels through Africa, locals explained to him that the man was a demonic ghost.
Indeed, albinos were taught to be harbingers of bad luck and so were killed during infancy among some of the ethnic groups.
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