PNG woman tortured, burned alive in 'sorcery' case

now this is really surprising! How can they still be doing this? I mean, what in the world are they thinking? If she did something, don't they have laws that should govern over her? The people who burned her alive are no less than her - they could have killed an innocent woman. the key - accused. she was only accused and it was not yet, proven right? We people are really easy to point fingers without being sure about it.

These people should be also burned alive in front of the crowd so that no one try to repeat this act again.

First of all this isn't the Salem witch trials or the middle ages. This is the 21st century and people still believe in this stuff and do this kind of stuff for punishment. That woman could have done whatever they said she did but did they have evidence proof she did it no so why do that to her? Even of they had proof they are still no better than she is for killing her and the way they did. That country and those people should be shamed of themselves because what did they was cruel and inhumane punishment with out proof she did anything. Innocent until proven guilty and proven she was not.

That is so judgmental! I think the criminals are those who should be burned alive especially the killers and rapist but not this sorcerer, I mean what if she was just accused but no evidence for it? And even this is true then they don't still have the right to torture her like that. Usually a sorcerer is not an initiative job wherein if she likes to swear someone then she will do it. There will be a person who will ask her to do that kind of job to torture other people.

Are people really that dumb to take matters in to there own hand?. It's not a good incident, it's a bad example people have set ...

In front of so many public, she was burned alive? And? I am no one got punished. When will this society grow up?

hi lady it sounds l ike a mentally backwards tribe to me and its very scary that they believe in sorcery and probably witch craft too. I imagine that their customs supersede any laws as it sounds like a tribal thing.What a scary place and one I would never want to visit either.My G od burning someone alive is totally terrible and i n front of little children.

I was surprise that things like this still happen in our century.I thought that kind of punishment occurred only during Inauisition

Good old days.

I thought witchcraft and such things do not exist in the modern world. It is sad the woman had to lose her life in such a brutal way.

sorry to hear that. Seems like there as in Mexico people very often take the court system into their own hands. very sad.......

The act is purely insanity beyond any logic to describe.but it happened on this modern world. This is only mean that science accomplishment has no effect on them. Many are still behind and need guidance. Sometimes that kind of act is related to the psychotic back ground of a place practiced through inheritance by many villagers. Their government must have to do something of that unscrupulous act

Yes buddy, i totally agree with you. What ever mistake they had done, only the law could punish them and not the public. I had read about this case too and i feel this incident happened in a uncivilized area in Papua New Guinea, so ridiculous.