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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAPUA_NEW_GUINEA_SORCERY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-02-07-23-32-01Feb 7, 11:32 PM EST
Accused witch burned alive in Papua New Guinea
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday after one of the highest profile sorcery-related murders in this South Pacific island nation.
Hundreds of 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 biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier, while the prime minister, police and diplomats condemned the killing.
Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old mother, had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before.
She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, Kakas said.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Now they've got gasoline, tires, and cameras, not to mention bic lighters to easy access to fire (how hard was it in Salem?). What will they think of next?
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Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)You are a real jerk
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Look in the mirror please..........and if it makes you feel more superior to call me names, I won't stop you
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)mwrguy
(3,245 posts)Learn something every day.
cali
(114,904 posts)this has jackshit to do with republicans.
Somebody will drag guns into this too.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)If most of us weren't obsessed with interested in politics we wouldn't be reading and posting here.
And yeah, we have the very same type of people here as they do in Papua New Guinea who would do this in a heartbeat if they thought they could get away with it.
I'm sure that some of the people watching that were horrified at what was going on but they probably correctly figured if they stood up for the "witch" that they would join her on the pyre.
There's even a contingent here on DU who are always ready to fry some accused criminal before all the facts are in.