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April 8th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
The killings come just days after another report that six women accused of
sorcery were tortured with hot irons in an Easter “sacrifice” in
the Southern Highlands.
Last month, a woman accused of sorcery was stripped naked and burned to death
by a mob, with Amnesty International stepping up calls for an end to
sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea.
Amnesty has urged the government to stamp out the practice in the Pacific
nation where there is a widespread belief in sorcery and where many people
do not accept natural causes as an explanation for misfortune and death.
There have been several other cases of witchcraft and cannibalism in PNG in
recent years, with a man reportedly found eating his screaming, newborn son
during a sorcery initiation ceremony in 2011.
Edited at telegraph.co.uk by Sarah
Titterton
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