tv War On Witches Al Jazeera January 26, 2018 12:32pm-1:01pm +03
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a little over twenty five but it's right after one of the one east next. facing reality is growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter the mean maher government calls you a gringo lead terrorist hear their story on and talk to how dizzying at this time. all. but. look at it. in public new guinea a growing wave of witch hunts is sweeping across the country women accused of causing sickness and deaths by sorcery are being brutally tortured and executed with authorities struggling to contain the violence the deaths of innocent women are going on punished i'm steve charland this additional one of one yes we
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investigate the dark and violent side up in new guinea pigs teaching practice. on the pacific island nation of the new guineans home to some of the world's most anxious traditions and mysterious retract. the belief in black magic that has cost him a shadow over this country of seven million pork i want them gone and i should be a. muslim sometimes i know on the bus you wipe. the torture and killing suspected sorceresses growing innocent people's objections just for find which are they up to the woman and when the torture then when they give it to the woman is a barely any man as
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a pop when you can use police force struggles to contain the spread of which on the side it is green criticized for committing its own with a human rights in the sense that both i'm just going to blow up but they really believe that there's no washing. to investigate the violent world of sorcery killings i'm traveling to the robert highlands ranch in the heart of country. to move province as one of the highest numbers of which chance and i've come to. by. memory of the brutal attack. she was set upon by five teenagers shooting was accused of causing the death of her son which brought. the weird name or big bad name in day. i mean day now same time i mean day well
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mike wallace governor foley all of that is unique or not by. a little money and they. do this i want to show my long and i mean they are always and all of them biting. locked in their band house she was tortured by the server allows. me to. bite the middle i. know i demand make america look like the skin moon are both good to curb this tired murder to come wish i was glad to be a stand on before the one that made her year and one dead member who could name bromine i mean based on no motive for. denise showed me the scars. and i just. love. my.
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denise spent more than a year in hospital but with nowhere else to go she returned to the community that attacked. me most was there were never moved ghost of what i first were. we start there me thinking of overheard some but they were very cute remember me very very. in many parts of the highlands medical explanations for sickness and death are rejected most believe witchcraft to be the cause of physical illness with women subjected to rich chance by groups of young men and the entire village of gathers and spectators to the abuse. in chambers main town of young on suspicion of sorcery and so widespread that merely discussing witchcraft could lead to
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a time. for survivors the only support comes from human rights volunteers like monica palace monica travels throughout the highlands finding survivors of witch hunts and moving them out of danger she became a volunteer after meeting dinny karl the first time i went to help out like i was just traumatized but chills. like a really shocking thing in my life and i was thinking like this is traded in your memory i don't think any human being destroyed a woman. there is a very risky doing this work monica says the nature of her work means she too often becomes the target of violence welcome at the gate the people think like you are doing this work because you are a so-so right you will sell this way you are trying to defend. kill your car and so
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it's very risky but if we don't do it those got to do it that's the thing. monica has brought me to the general hospital where she's checking on the welfare of baby orphaned by recent which aren't. no for three months so i'm going to sit on my blame to the market in my mug don't listen to pop up and then not get my wife saw full flavor. of. the child's mother maher soiree was tortured into mind following the death of her husband. the man's family refused to accept that he died of natural causes and blamed morrow for causing his death through sorcery because if there is a man in some death in the community authentic a bit here's the woman that wife to be the sole sarette. apple n.d. was mars friend and neighbor and told me she heard a woman scream soon after news of the husband's death reached the village. along
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able. the whole planet in my mind i want to. know who i know. this long name. mars remains were found in a shallow grave less than fifty meters from had village she had been burnt and suffered deep wounds from machetes and exodus in her village the house she was tortured in has been abandoned out of fear of the spirits. apple is now caring for maurice baby when we have to come get me enough for you. and you know. it was a lot of been killed in the blood you believe. most of the village witnessed the attack but refused to speak to police out of fear that they too will be targeted.
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or also not of life i am sure you know not. a lot not just local news of. travels throughout the highlands by he harrowing tales of atrocities in almost every. paper trying to speak openly of killing which is. more. this is marcus kearney i'm here to taking part in a rethinking village woman accused of sorcery. we were smug here. we've got the douglas angle one now marcus and a group of men soon identified a suspect who they tortured for hours. on this but i just figure you
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and. he's with am i them killing one on day one chop them give him straight love it and. stick. them given in. more time they. will get most of it like i'm walking to. you all the nation are looking for. marcus since he feels protected by the remoteness of the village and is not afraid of being caught. live. we look at about them listen now we're not even doesn't know what it all and that got us good or said only that only that there were so much muglia now a family doing and look so awesome my love of learning the love.
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marcus told me he no longer joins in the killing of accused which is the fear of sorcery power is spreading. were ever i go in the country nearly every person i meet believes in witchcraft sorcery is part of the million isn't believe it is or believe it did a person process a creature you know within him or here and there's a potential to cause sickness or death of another person. jackie romney is a leading researcher of sorcery belief and has published extensively on which killings it is important for people in the way to cater to explain that sickness and death are caused by in all bacteria or viruses you know this kind of things we have to change the belief system of the people to change the mindset.
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chance typically during popular guinea's traditional funeral service known as the house. i was crying so how some morning you know when someone dies those who are suspect of processing power are brought to that central place. and they try to you know into a gate you know they try to make them tell whether they are responsible for the c.e.o. for the death or not. many that survived the attacks and later were abandoned by their families shunned and isolated from the rest of the village. but in some cases families show immense bravery in defending their loved ones from witch hunts. mary peter was attacked by seven men armed with machetes during a funeral service for a baby. boy so step along house much. bloody on one minute to stop
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we don't know what one does any less live here or voice your kid i'm not your definition woman someone you begin in the u.k. give beginning in baby name day. mary's husband peter carnley drove her to safety as she was being attacked but not before the witch hunt had inflicted serious injuries. come on the leader well that's a skinny come help. me in the toilet skinny guy can move a noose no way bringuier. after the attack peter and his wife were held at gunpoint before scaping into the mountains to me what a little a program. we got in them come out. we've treated fine with me because i want them one day and i mean got him come out now i want them all to get any old female. but of them are numbered so let me feeling friend with a little name of love me. them to me be sure in what little you would
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need know one thing but also want to call in. me but i can. use a people one of sending me that one day of course in the me so i know what to do know me what i can but that one thing you took. several weeks after i first met human rights defend him on a compound was i travel to hi i'm good when i ride a neighbor shows me an empty house and monica's few possessions are the stolen or destroyed from the money. i'm told a group of young men armed with guns and machetes broke in during the night. i find monica several hours away she says an early warning allowed her to escape someone told me like i couldn't so i must not stay in the house so i moved but in
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the morning when i came back like those was broken in. monica was targeted for preventing the torture of a nine year old girl accused of sorcery. we chant began after a baby drowned in a nearby river they left the baby on the side of the riverbank with the other kids they were playing. around they realized that the baby was not the rule being their daily lives and being much them good. was carried over by the real already. and wolf and without family protection the nine year old girl was immediately singled out as a sorcerer and blamed for the deaths they looked in the house and they started questioning her as to how she killed the baby when asked this if you did not. go to cuba you saw. told them that would be but they didn't do anything. so i knew they would be a lot of danger to be
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a little further up the birth of what i've been doing but i really felt that they should really help. now a victim herself monica tells me she's thinking of stopping her work helping others it's like i'm getting really tired and i come move or mimic i feel like i'd like there are times i feel like i just quit what i'm doing and just you know sit back and. think about myself and what i should do and mold is because when i look and think about it this late. this little support then there's no security guarantee that. most of the victims sorcery attacks on women but sometimes men in the pursuit norbert seal and his mother angelo. to share and access their bodies thrown into a communal toilet pit a finally common to sorcery killings. police told me they could not find the men
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responsible but desire discovered one of them wanted for questioning still lives at the crime scene ari my mother denies having any involvement but gives a detailed account of the witch hunt only got some really suspect know. some city saw a comment up on. one suspect. so i just saw. them. the attackers then turned to the mother of the murdered man. i'm just not certain. a period of futile
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violence followed in retribution for the killings entire villages would break down and people were forced from their homes but there were no regrets for the witch hunt let's accept. you one of them but not know what it will tell all and. you warm out a little suspect of them because of the modern game and we got to kind of a two level totally let him down and that's another come up in my bandmates imbalance in. the brother of the victim most assume told me he was angry the killings remained free and city was preparing to take the law into his hands alone governmental commission you think you know me monday show me thinking of buying a new mood let me could induce an election labor all that a little would make the b.b.c. think you know me come lately it's the one thing in the movie all these low.
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level remotely fleetly a mission well money killing little bit. when you don't look at women through them to look. them too close to bush so in the old german come in the machine do a bus stop for the late. most victims of sorcery attacks can expect a little help from the law police in pop when you get around to stop and under-resourced corruption is rife and witchcraft has such an entrenched following in this country that police often lack the will and motivation to investigate. michael welch is the senior commander of our police station as a local man with strong beliefs he says witch hunts and necessary to protect people from sorcery there is socially two sides and the result was loosely of someone
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who died the police could not that we're seeing. several though so. commander welsh dismisses the global condemnation of pop when you get the charts and says outside views should not be imposed on the country. we would rather we'll see the. rights of people who want to come to. use the socialist or totally the us. if we. are not to know when the world will have no. human rights abuse of anyone. can get us through for us then why. use only a little. bit and how exactly do you get rid of us. who. are just going to include.
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many survivors don't mean four times because they say police will never investigate but others refuse to give up several months after he rescued his wife mary from attack i find he to cali outside the police station he's identified. one of the suspects to police simone you stop a bus stop going to not about south africa what on earth are not make up talking about for the spanish for twenty or thirty nudo you start up you know you watch but my. pater is angry the police have not investigated the witch hunt that nearly killed his wife. for. not taking one play can continue in the just to make. money. but every number. to turn into they risk the men he dispensed seven hours detailing the case to
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police. eventually officers make. this new law at the moment i. want his money next you love a guy that. doesn't really suspect that someone might. police made the arrest but investigations of the charts are extremely rare. but with a growing international outrage to some sort of police and slowly being pressured to take action. francis is a detective with the homicide squad and says police often find it difficult to investigate which chance it will work and this will probably. conducting believe
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because it will monitor whether some believe. after reports we chanted north of the province offices agree need to join the search for the perpetrators. by them. going to last and sometimes. police often least relatives of the victims and local villages to help catch the suspect. after travelling with boys from the same alleys one of the suspects spotted on the song at the wrong. police in the villages attempt to arrest. me down on him. what on him going on and would have to go out and go police.
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although one man gets away the second suspect is captured and taken into custody and one of the recruits were kinds of personal song that would have been on the. part of the who did. you move on or want to push. for that good. i'm going to take you. down. on home now what's it. going to. do with. the number of. new many little you know no good. news on the heels of no one but. three government. told the prime suspect. talking to us to me i don't want other people because. they're my friend
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a member somebody should let me push no you remember me well below the. other middle of the political game and we're going to milk it. i'm just so i'm going to remember but there really is no was. not a good you know you're not going to look at me a little like this the more you talk about. the police are also involved in causing a lot of abuses in human rights when you look at the police brutality when a perpetrate this broad you will see them start punching them and to me it's like they don't know about the human rights so this should be a lot of training and. patience in them but. right now that undeterred by the threats to her life monica continues to help victims of the chants and he's urging the national government to stand sparing
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human rights disaster the government of top wanted me to look seriously into this cases and they should work with human rights defenders on the ground the community leaders the police everyone has to get involved because the violence is really getting out of it and it's really increasing. in one word via the government. the people the leaders everyone is still work together. monica is one of the voices brave enough to speak out against the brutality chants that few listening and fear of sorcery is growing attacks against the unison spreading across top when you get it and becoming brazen. is the number it continues to rise the whole group since three killings have only just begun. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one
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