Witch Burned Alive For Sorcery

     A woman was tortured and burned alive in Papua New Guinea after being accused of using sorcery to kill a young boy. The woman, a twenty year old mother named as Kepari Leniata, was stripped, tied up and doused in petrol by the boy's relatives in Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands. 
     Provincial police commander Supt Kaiglo Ambane stated that police were treating the case as murder and would arrest those responsible.In parts of the Pacific nation deaths and mysterious illnesses are sometimes blamed on suspected sorcerers or witches. Several reports have emerged in recent years of accused people, usually women, being killed.
     In 2009, after a string of such killings, the chairman of PNG's Constitutional Review and Law Reform Commission said defendants were using accusations of witchcraft and sorcery as an excuse to kill people, and called for tougher legislation to tackle the issue. Local Christian bishop David Piso told that sorcery-related witch killings were a growing problem, and urged the government "to come up with a law to stop such practice." 
     Obviously this is a tragic death and should be investigated thoroughly. With that being said I also think that this is hilarious. I mean a witch being burned at the stake! That's hilarious! Here where we lived in the civilized world you never get any of that anymore. So for me to know that these medieval witch hunts still happen is awesome!
    To read more click here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21363894