Monday, February 11, 2013

Witchy Woman in New Guinea

"Papua New Guinea mob burns woman" Associated Press, February 09, 2013

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — A mob stripped, tortured, and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday.

It was the latest sorcery-related killing in this South Pacific island nation.

Bystanders, including many children, watched and some took photographs of Wednesday’s brutal slaying. Grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country’s two largest newspapers, The National and the Post-Courier, while the prime minister, police, and diplomats condemned the killing....

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