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Suspected witch bound, tortured, burned alive in Papua New Guinea
The Washington Times ^ | Friday, February 8, 2013 | Cheryl K. Chumley

Posted on 02/08/2013 9:56:47 AM PST by Jyotishi

A mob stripped, bound, tortured then burned to death a woman accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea, as hundreds of witnesses — including children — watched and took photographs.

The pictures were published on the front pages of the Oceania nation’s largest circulation newspapers, Associated Press reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: sorcery; torture; witch; witchcraft
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To: livius

[Papua New Guinea] ...The 2000 census found that 96% of citizens identified themselves as members of a Christian church; however, many citizens combine their Christian faith with some traditional indigenous religious practices...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea#cite_note-45


21 posted on 02/08/2013 10:16:13 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

22 posted on 02/08/2013 10:20:03 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: TexasRepublic

Wow, witching — where, which witches in Washington?


23 posted on 02/08/2013 10:21:35 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: GreatMan

P


24 posted on 02/08/2013 10:26:12 AM PST by GreatMan
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To: Jyotishi

Kind of like Obama’s weird quasi-Christianity.


25 posted on 02/08/2013 10:43:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Jyotishi

So all cultures are the same, eh? So let them all come in the USA and practice their barbarism?


26 posted on 02/08/2013 10:50:14 AM PST by I want the USA back (Only people with their head up their a$$ vote democrat.)
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To: Jyotishi

Note to self: Never go to Papua, New or Old. lol


27 posted on 02/08/2013 11:03:26 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Jyotishi

That fraud Jared Diamond has made a fortune selling a book to “nice” white libtards telling how the PNGs are in his opinion the world’s smartest people.


28 posted on 02/08/2013 11:04:41 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Jyotishi

They are only doing as their holy book commands...

“You shall not allow a witch to live.” - Exodus 22:18 - The Holy Bible’

Right next to those “Ten Commandments” Look it up!

No need for “indigenous beliefs”.......


29 posted on 02/08/2013 11:13:11 AM PST by procrustes (You make Free Republic look bad!)
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To: Jyotishi
They are only doing as their holy book commands...

“You shall not allow a witch to live.” - Exodus 22:18 - The Holy Bible’

Right next to those “Ten Commandments” Look it up!

No need for “indigenous beliefs”.......

30 posted on 02/08/2013 11:13:46 AM PST by procrustes (You make Free Republic look bad!)
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To: Jyotishi

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/08/20-year-old-stripped-tortured-and-burned-alive-in-front-of-hundreds-after-accused-of-being-a-witch-in-papua-new-guinea/

That’s one of their paper’s coverage.


31 posted on 02/08/2013 11:33:58 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

well, we hanged people here in America. After a trial.

I’m glad for my 10 greats-grandmother’s sake that she was hanged, and not tortured and beaten and burned, although being confined in damp prison cell for months may have made up for some of that.


32 posted on 02/08/2013 11:36:19 AM PST by heartwood
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To: Jyotishi

Seriously, they really burned a witch?

33 posted on 02/08/2013 11:38:35 AM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: wiggen

For those who like even more graphic details’’’

http://233livenews.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/papua-new-guinea-mother-20-accused-of-being-a-witch-burned-alive/


34 posted on 02/08/2013 11:42:52 AM PST by procrustes (You make Free Republic look bad!)
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To: procrustes

> “You shall not allow a witch to live.” - Exodus 22:18 - The Holy Bible’

I read that Islam also calls for the execution of witches.


35 posted on 02/08/2013 11:48:22 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

This makes me think of today’s earlier thread about exorcisms.


36 posted on 02/08/2013 11:49:58 AM PST by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: wiggen

> http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/08/20-year-old-stripped-tortured-and-burned-alive-in-front-of-hundreds-after-accused-of-being-a-witch-in-papua-new-guinea/

From the article: “By eating witch doctors’ organs, the cult members believed they would attain supernatural powers”

Papua must have a McWitches franchise.


37 posted on 02/08/2013 11:57:18 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

I guess nobody knew where to find a duck.


38 posted on 02/08/2013 12:08:54 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Jyotishi

They’re doing the work that Americans won’t do.


39 posted on 02/08/2013 12:12:16 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: procrustes

I got lots more info from that article than the ones printed domestically. Astounds me how these nations get a seat in a body like the UN or whatever organization of which there are many. Nobody believes in come back when you’re civilized?


40 posted on 02/08/2013 12:19:37 PM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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