Assailants 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.
Some of the hundreds of bystanders 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. The prime minister, police and diplomats condemned the killing.
It could have been worse! She could have been shot, and it would have been a “Gun Death”!
Sadly, very common in this country, especially in the Chimbu area.
And, since only the very rich can get guns here, ladies are almost entirely defenseless- because to the PNG culture, many are just seen as property. And it tends to be ladies that get accused and killed.