Sagumas/Witches and AIDS in PNG

[sonanova]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/08/png.witchcraft/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

From CNN, interesting article on another witchcraft killing in PNG...

Comments

Not Too Different from the United States

[anonymous]

When 40% of our own so-called "blessed" United States still believes in the "Arc" as a true story, we are not far behind PNG. Maybe we don't burn at the stake, but we verbally and physically (bats, knives, guns) bash, discriminate, deny equal rights, and basically treat our own fellow citizens like "witches" on a daily basis. The parents who kick their own children out into the streets because they perceive them not to be "normal"... same psychosis.

Re: Not Too Different from the United States

[sonanova]

Actually, my sister had a very similar reply when I told her about this earlier this morning.

[kirstenclio]

Well, I'm sure I am singing to the chore, but the concept of 'magic' is societial. We, in western culture, put a un-educated emphasis on the term. That is not true in other parts of the world. So I am always careful with articles written by westerners about 'magic' 'witches'.