Guinea Pigs

According to media reports, a 20-year-old woman in Papua New Guinea who was accused of using witchcraft to kill a young boy was tortured and burned alive. The woman, Kepari Leniata, was reportedly stripped, tied up, and doused in gas by the boy's relatives in Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands. She was then thrown into a fire in front of hundreds of people, and police and firefighters were allegedly unable to intervene because they were outnumbered by the crowd. Newspapers published graphic photos of the burning, which the U.S. embassy in the capital Port Moresby condemned as "brutal murder."