Woman burned as a 'witch' in Papua New Guinea!

Horrifying, but apparently this happens a lot in PNG!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21363894

pathetic.. so dumb

What surprised me is that the law there allows it!

They are a whole different culture. Its not so long ago that we did it ourselves. I'm not saying it is right or just, its horrific.

Hayley wrote:They are a whole different culture. Its not so long ago that we did it ourselves. I'm not saying it is right or just, its horrific.

It was a long time ago, the 17th century! Even in a backward culture that's a long time!

They are so behind the times there

Its barbaric!!!!

Thought I read they did that a lot in South Africa too, or maybe it was somewhere else. And then people killing Albinos because it's meant to bring people luck. Crazy how extreme people can be, how worlds apart cultures are.

Caryll wrote:

Hayley wrote:They are a whole different culture. Its not so long ago that we did it ourselves. I'm not saying it is right or just, its horrific.

It was a long time ago, the 17th century! Even in a backward culture that's a long time!

Thats not terribly long to me, but its all relative lol witches were killed until 1730's in england.

Horrific that things like that still go on

very sad but I suspect they find something we do as weird or different