Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped, tied up, doused in petrol and burned alive by relatives of a boy who had died following an illness in the city of Mount Hagen. The attackers claimed Kepari had caused the boy’s death through sorcery.
Apparently it wasn’t an isolated incident, either.
Amnesty International has received reports of girls as young as eight years old being attacked and accused of sorcery, and children being orphaned as a result of one or both their parents being killed after accusations of witchcraft.
Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere.
Kepari Leniata was burned alive in 2013 in Papua New Guinea over accusations of witchcraft.
Wow, I hadn’t heard of this.
Apparently it wasn’t an isolated incident, either.
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Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere.