Margaret Marabe, a known local activist in PNG, carried out an awareness campaign in the Tari area of the Southern Highlands earlier this year.

 »I saw three people with my own eyes. When they got very sick and people could not look after them, they buried them, » she told reporters.

She described how one person called out « mama, mama » as the soil was being shovelled over their head.

Pour lutter contre le SIDA, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, on enterre vivants les malades. Et pour faire bonne mesure, on torture et on assassine des femmes accusées d’être des sorcières responsables de cette maladie.

Médecine traditionnelle, je suppose.

Source : BBC.