k-train Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 (edited) "A series of killings by a cannibal cult whose members believe they have supernatural powers to identify sorcerers has delayed elections in the Commonwealth nation of Papua New Guinea.The cult is accused of killing and eating seven people — five men and two women - whom they say practiced black magic in remote jungle territory around the coastal town of Madang. Police say they have arrested twenty-nine members, including a 13-year-old boy, but the leader, a local councillor, remain at large.The cult began as an attempt to curb extortion by self-proclaimed sorcerers who were demanding money from sick people. But the anti-witchcraft activists began to believe they had special powers to detect sorcerers.”Sorcery was getting out of hand in the villages,” a local political activist told The Sydney Morning Herald.”It used to be a good thing, but now it’s turned into a kind of cult. They killed [the first victim] on the roadside. They cut out his heart, they cut out his brains they drank his blood.”Belief in sorcery and witchcraft is widespread in the Pacific nation, which has a Sorcery Act aimed at preventing attacks on people accused of practicing black magic.The series of attacks by the 500-member cult has disrupted elections and added to delays of the two—week ballot which was due to end on Friday.Allegations of bribery and vote rigging, as well as difficulties in accessing ballot boxes from remote provinces, have added to the delays.Voting may end next week.Police said villagers near the headquarters of the cult had been unable to vote because of fears for their safety.A police commander, Anthony Wagambie Jr, said twelve cult members committed the murders and all members were involved in eating the victims.“They were looking at going out and looking for sorcerers, suspected people who do sorcery in the area,” he said.“So they started getting together and saying they will go out and get rid of the sorcerers. How they pinpointed these people ? They said they were led there by spirits, but they’ve gone a step further and started killing people and eating their body parts.”Mr Wagambie said several members had confessed to eating body parts and making soup from the victims.A local MP, Ken Fairweather, said “nearly everyone” in the country believe that sorcery, or puripuri, is used to place curses or kill people.“There’s even political leaders today and other leaders who are terrified of puripuri,” he told ABC Radio.“I’ve seen people, seen them with my own eyes starve themselves to death because they believe that they’ve been poisoned.”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/papuanewguinea/9378038/Cannibal-killers-delay-Papua-New-Guinea-poll.html Edited July 5, 2012 by k-train Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Ocean Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Cannibalism is really trending in 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I wonder what kind of rub they use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacey C Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I bet Obama knows that puripuri stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forever Julian Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Papua new Guinea really seems like a terrible place by all accounts. Their women are............extremely unfortunate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychic Gibbon Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I take it that Papua New Guinea is the land time forgot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Is there such thing as "white meat" and "dark meat" on a black person? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forever Julian Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I take it that Papua New Guinea is the land time forgot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostone Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Had a good conversation with my African friends today about how and why some people ended up as slaves an others didn't and why some went to north vs south America. One of my boys talked about how his mothers tribe did not believe in witchcraft, but had to fend off Belgium. So they resorted to canablisim so they would get left alone.Off topic: I guess I have two non technical books to read... "American theocracy" and "the new Jim Crow". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forever Julian Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Had a good conversation with my African friends today about how and why some people ended up as slaves an others didn't and why some went to north vs south America. One of my boys talked about how his mothers tribe did not believe in witchcraft, but had to fend off Belgium. So they resorted to canablisim so they would get left alone.Off topic: I guess I have two non technical books to read... "American theocracy" and "the new Jim Crow".That should have been the shortest conversation ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Note to self New Guinea Cannibals is a great name for a metal band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-train Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 Note to self New Guinea Cannibals is a great name for a metal band.Sounds more like a Fine Young Cannibals tribute band Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Sounds more like a Fine Young Cannibals tribute band**** it!!!!Foiled again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self Made Soul Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Had a good conversation with my African friends today about how and why some people ended up as slaves an others didn't and why some went to north vs south America. One of my boys talked about how his mothers tribe did not believe in witchcraft, but had to fend off Belgium. So they resorted to canablisim so they would get left alone.Off topic: I guess I have two non technical books to read... "American theocracy" and "the new Jim Crow".Off-topic, but related to slavery... I love John Green's Crash Course: World History segments on youtube, and he posted this yesterday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self Made Soul Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 The late Michael Crichton talked about the culture of that area a lot in his book "Travels". In New Guinea, towns often went to war with each other even today, and would invade in bands of 20-30 people. Just imagine some neighborhood in Atlanta packing up with machetes and hand tools and invading some other subdivision. He wrote that a bus full of British tourists that were there to see the pristine landscape and tribal culture drove by just in time to see some farmer being beheaded by a mob just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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