Five women accused of witchcraft lynched by India mob

[niyad]

Five women accused of witchcraft lynched by India mob


Villagers drag middle-aged women from their huts and beat them to death around midnight in eastern Jharkhand state.



Belief in witchcraft and the occult remains widespread in some parts of India [AP]

Villagers in a rural part of eastern India have killed five women whom they accused of practising witchcraft, police have said. Police in eastern Jharkhand state said on Saturday that a group of assailants dragged the women out of their huts and beat them to death at around midnight on Friday in their village, some 30km from the state capital, Ranchi.

"A group [of villagers] dragged the women out and beat them to death with sticks, accusing them of practising witchcraft," Ranchi deputy police chief Arun Kumar Singh told the AFP news agency by phone.
At least 21 villagers have been arrested over the killings of the women, who were mostly aged between 45 and 50.



"Aishwarya Devi named four other women. Some of the villagers beat those five women to death. So far, we have arrested 21 people in the case," said Singh.

In yet another barbaric incident related to superstition in the tribal state, the villages alleged that those five women had killed a boy through their black magic. "A boy died in the village a week ago. Allegation was levelled against a woman that she killed the boy through witchcraft," Singh said.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/women-accused-witchcraft-lynched-india-mob-150808111054841.html

[Coventina]

1. I am seriously re-thinking my plans to visit India.

I wanted to visit the birthplace of Buddhism, but there seems to be a horrific war on women going on there.

And, I'm between the ages of 45 and 50....

[niyad]

2. you should definitely find another place to visit.

[Coventina]

3. Agreed.

I think I'll go to Cuba instead.

Not the birthplace of Buddhism, of course, but I want to celebrate our restored relations.
And, I hear it's really beautiful.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. If you are a woman

I would not set foot there or any Muslim country. It isn't worth the risk.

[SwissTony]

9. My wife and I went to Jordan two years ago

We were treated with the greatest respect.

There are other countries I'd be less keen to go to.

[Syzygy321]

8. May I suggest choosing another country,

coupled with a letter to India's tourism bureau explaining your reasons.

If you want to spend your money only in a place that is working seriously toward gender equality, that would have to be a western nation - or a very few others. Rwanda or Tunisia or South Korea. Singapore may be okay.

The rest pretty much suck.

[BlueJazz]

15. I've been there...all over. Offer me 10 grand to go back ? Fuck you.

[hifiguy]

4. Two horrifying stories out of India in two days.

I pften wonder whether rapacious greed and avarice or blind ignorance and superstition (of ALL kinds) will kill off the human species first. They are unquestionably the two altars of insanity at which the species is gleefully sacrificing itself. We are the only primates capable of committing societal suicide and seem hell-bent on doing so.

[Iggo]

5. Fuck all goddam motherfucking magical-thinking morons.

:middlefinger:

[smirkymonkey]

10. +1000

India is a complete hellhole for women.

[Rex]

7. Wow. We talk about monarchies, say hello to the caste system.

Take your pick of feudal law, they all suck for women.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. yep

[niyad]

11. . . . .

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. sick.poor women

[niyad]

14. indeed.