Nowhere in India is there a monument dedicated to men and women who've been killed, maimed and humiliated after being called sorcerers
BHUBANESHWAR/KEONJHAR: Dukhini Munda still shivers, his voice breaking often, as he recounts the horrific attack on his mother Nathi Munda in Urumunda area of Keonjhar in September 2017. “My mother was cooking. I was ploughing in the backyard when I heard a noise. As I rushed inside, I found three men from our adjoining village dragging my mother outside the house. They were armed with wooden planks and yelling ‘dahani’ (witch) at her. They smashed my mother’s head. She died on the spot,” Munda said.
The attackers blamed the old woman for the death of a 4-year-old. The child had been down with fever for several weeks. Later police sources said the men who killed Nathi had heard at a local market that she practised black magic and that her "evil design finished the child off".
The attackers blamed the old woman for the death of a 4-year-old. The child had been down with fever for several weeks. Later police sources said the men who killed Nathi had heard at a local market that she practised black magic and that her "evil design finished the child off".