{"id":20276,"date":"2019-03-30T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20276"},"modified":"2019-03-30T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:00:16","slug":"in-papua-new-guinea-witch-hunts-torture-and-murder-are-reactions-to-the-modern-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/in-papua-new-guinea-witch-hunts-torture-and-murder-are-reactions-to-the-modern-world\/","title":{"rendered":"In Papua New Guinea, witch hunts, torture and murder are reactions to the modern world"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div>\n<div class=\"imageContainer generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">\n<div class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--img content--img caption\">\n<div class=\"body__image image\">\n<div class=\"image_wrapper wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wrapper__img preview-img-item\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/methode\/2019\/03\/29\/8ad0555c-4f6d-11e9-8617-6babbcfb60eb_972x_151023.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson Kapo, who witnessed Kepari Leniata being burned alive after being accused of witchcraft. Photo: Tallulah Photography\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"image__title\">Jackson Kapo, who witnessed Kepari Leniata being burned alive after being accused of witchcraft. Photo: Tallulah Photography<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"share-box image-share image-share--media\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">As Kapo reveals, not all the witnesses responded with horror as flames engulfed Leniata\u2019s body. Some felt her fate was deserved. Her crime? She was blamed for the death of a six-year-old neighbourhood boy who had succumbed to a diarrhoeal condition after several days of illness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/post-magazine\/long-reads\/article\/3003791\/papua-new-guinea-witch-hunts-torture-and-murder\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Jackson Kapo, who witnessed Kepari Leniata being burned alive after being accused of witchcraft. Photo: Tallulah Photography As Kapo reveals, not all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}