Modern witch-hunts terrorise New Guinea highlands

AFP: A spate of brutal witch-hunts has plunged parts of Papua New Guinea’s highlands into a state of terror, as fearful tribes blame dark forces for their rapidly changing world.
In one particularly horrifying incident, an elderly woman writhes and pleads hysterically as she is mercilessly beaten, raped and tortured on a hut floor, before her naked body -– bloodied and nearly lifeless — is dragged outside, where a village mob beats and burns her until movement ceases.
Almost everyone joins in. No one bothers to obscure their face.
No one tries to stop it.