No, it's not true at all. I've been to the affected regions five times now. In every community where murders have been taking place, the only security present were the security guards I brought to protect me and my team.
Yes, there are police in those villages, just as there are in every village in Tanzania, but my staff and I have been to the homes of dozens, if not hundreds, of people with albinism, and we've never seen police officers anywhere in proximity to those homes. So maybe they've thrown on an extra patrol or two, perhaps, but we have not seen evidence of it.
With respect to the parliamentarian's comment that they've implemented the death penalty in this case, let's be clear: the death penalty has been on the books in Tanzania forever for capital murder. They didn't put it on the books to protect people with albinism. It's been on the books forever in the case of any capital murder. So they've done nothing unique or special about people with albinism.
In the three cases were a few people have been brought to conviction, a few of the men have been sentenced to death; they're sitting on death row. No one's been actually executed in Tanzania for 15 years.
So while it is true that the death penalty is on the books in the law of Tanzania, as it was in most Commonwealth countries at one time, including Canada, what's not true is that it was brought on in some kind of a response to these albino killings.