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Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts)
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:58 PM Sep 2012

'Witch' burned in northwestern Colombia .

Source: Colombia Reports

'Witch' burned in northwestern Colombia .
Sunday, 02 September 2012 05:30 Adriaan Alsema

woman from the northwestern Colombian department of Antioquia has been murdered after being accused of being a witch, local media reported Saturday.

According to the reports, the woman was found dead on Friday in her home in a rural area little more than 10 miles south of Medellin on Friday.

Police had found that she had been beaten to death after which the murderers drenched her lifeless body with gasoline and set fire to it.

The mayor of the Santa Barbara municipality condemned the homicide, calling it an expression of "abhorrent intolerance that resembles the days of the inquisition."

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/25832-witch-killed-and-burned-in-northwestern-colombia.html

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'Witch' burned in northwestern Colombia . (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2012 OP
Ugh... sakabatou Sep 2012 #1
An international version of The War on Women southerncrone Sep 2012 #2
Evil hatred of women. The mayor's condemnation is efhmc Sep 2012 #3
Fucking sick. nt ZombieHorde Sep 2012 #4
She must have owned a nice piece of land that somebody wanted. That's usually the case Monk06 Sep 2012 #5
True! When the landowner's a man who won't sell it for a peso or two to the death squads, Judi Lynn Sep 2012 #6
This time of superstition and intolerance is repub paradise! adigal Sep 2012 #7
Absolutely disgusting! icymist Sep 2012 #8

Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts)
6. True! When the landowner's a man who won't sell it for a peso or two to the death squads,
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 04:23 AM
Sep 2012

they tell him not to worry about it, they'll discuss it with his widow.

Colombia has the 2nd largest displaced population in the world, sometimes surpassing the other top nation, Sudan.

Greed is the only reason for this. Total, relentless, filthy greed, torturing and killing everyone in their way if simple terrorism doesn't work first.

 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
7. This time of superstition and intolerance is repub paradise!
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 07:51 AM
Sep 2012

This is what they want to bring us back to, the Puritan times. We need to fight this with everything we have!

icymist

(15,888 posts)
8. Absolutely disgusting!
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 05:43 PM
Sep 2012

And so we now have news from the women hating part of the world. I suppose the Republicans are jumping for joy at such news as it fits in on their war on women.

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