PNG: No justice for woman burned alive in 'sorcery' attack

Headline Title:  PNG: No justice for woman burned alive in 'sorcery' attack 06 February 2014 The failure of the Papua New Guinea authorities to bring the killers of a woman who was burned alive to justice, underlines their complete failure to address “sorcery” attacks, Amnesty International said on the first anniversary of her death. Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped, tied up, doused in petrol and burned alive by relatives of a boy who had died following an illness in the city of Mount Hagen. The attackers claimed Kepari had caused the boy’s death through sorcery."One…

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