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Witch hunters ransack villages, burn suspects in bizarre crimes

BY BEATRICE WAMUYU

In 2009, a macabre video that showed five elderly people suspected of witchcraft being burned alive emerged online. In the video, villagers kick and taunt the five before setting them ablaze. They are seen piling dry twigs on the grandparents, who are eventually too weak to protest. Some sit up in a daze and just let the fire burn.

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