Papua New Guinea: ‘Wickedness – Woman Accused of Witchcraft Burnt Alive’

A woman accused of witchcraft has been burned alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in Papua New Guinea. The brutal slaying of 20-year-old mother-of-one Kepari Leniata on Wednesday has been condemned by the nation’s prime minister, police and diplomatic observers.

She was stripped naked by several assailants, tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in petrol, then set alight on a pile of car tyres and rubbish… Some of the hundreds of bystanders took photographs and grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country’s biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier.

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