DAY 5: Papua New Guinea’s Black Magic Murders (ShortHand’s 13 Days of Halloween)

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Black magic, or ‘Sanguma’, is often used to explain everything from minor illnesses to sudden deaths in Papua New Guinea.

Horrifyingly, it’s also behind the recent rise of brutal witch hunts sweeping the nation. An epidemic of violence in which, predominantly, women and girls are being publicly tortured and murdered.

Why? Find out on this week’s ShortHand.

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