India: Drive against witch-hunting

In order to spread scientific knowledge on basic healthcare techniques as well as preventing witch-hunt cases in upper Assam, Mission Birubala, a voluntary trust set up for launching massive awareness against practicing of occultism and witch-hunting, has started a series of sensitization programs in some selected areas of Jorhat, Golaghat and Tinsukia districts.

In one such programme, renowned anti-witchcraft activist Birubala Rabha said here on Tuesday that she along with her associates will try their best to make the people think on scientific lines in day-to-day life instead of resorting to occult practices during any kind of disease or epidemic.

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