No proof to justify sorcery violence

SORCERY belief has been so influential that it gradually chewed away the Christian believes and morals.
We all are liable to death and our fate of death depends upon our own day to day livelihood therefore it concludes itself with the common saying “death is at your own hand”.
Death comes to us all, it does not discriminate nor spare an individual as per his/her status within the society but to seize at that moment.
The sorcery belief has grown its roots around 1980s and fired up more rapidly during the mid- 1990s.
This belief has already reach the shores of Mamose and it has been played cool along with “posin” practice.
When I look into sorcery belief, there is no proof there to justify the practice of sorcery or sorcery being used to kill someone.
Sorcery accusation is purely based upon assumption of an individual or family group who had their own reasons against other families that are related to each other and the deceased.
Here is a fiction story that will help us to see the pros and cons on sorcery if it is real or not?
A local from Buglabugl village, located on the south side of Waiye local level government in Kundiawa/Gembogl attended primary school and was selected to Kundiawa Lutheran Day High for his high school studies than to Kerowagi Secondary school.
He was then selected to do Science Foundation at the University of Papua New Guinea.
He was the pride of the family and the community.
He made friends and on weekends he would go out with his friends on a drinking spree and take whatever that comes along without considering any health risks.
During his final year, as a top students he selected onto a mining company’s graduate development programme.
He continued on the drinking habit. Eventually, the lad married his secondary school sweet heart who was an account at a well-established firm.
His drinking habit still did not change.
Two years later, he was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis when his first born son was eight months old.
Throughout his breaks, he would flood the community with alcohol.
During Christmas one year, he came with his family for the holiday at home for almost a month.
While at home he started to feel sick, dehydrated and was vomiting
However, he had to resume duty so they went back to Port Moresby.
After resuming duty, his health continue to deteriorate and as days, weeks and months went by and he was eventually diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, a disease that is not curable.
The news about his degraded health condition reached home and eventually it became a family and community issue.
Families did not understand that his condition was the result of his lifestyle.
Finally, one Saturday morning, he passed away in hospital.
His death shook the whole community and the neighbouring tribes that share the same land boundaries and hunting grounds.
Immediate families started asking themselves and there were suspicion of sorcery brewing among themselves.
The usual Highlands “haus krai” took place.
As funeral arrangements were being planned, a widow with two others were also placed under the spot light.
They are placed under the watchful eyes of the drug addicts who are so fond about sorcery and they can blend and tread well with any sorcery related issues.
The widow was accused of having to go sleep so early while others are still up in the haus krai.
In a haus krai, you cannot go to sleep early or during the early hours of the night but to go sleep on late hours however for her case she was a widow and she had to perform her daily chores during the day.
Those innocent people are being harassed, assaulted and tortured periodically than were about to be condemned to death but they were saved by a phone call from a good Samaritan who had seen that they were innocent.
This fictional story is about the death that was caused by an individual own drinking habit that led to his destruction thorough failed health.
Once I had witnessed a sorcery related violence that cause havoc and destruction of properties; hectares of coffee garden were chop down, houses were burnt, animals are being slaughtered and people were being brutally attacked.
For almost a decade, the families were being split by their difference but at the end, those who accuse the innocent people came to realise that, they were all wrong after all and they sincerely ask for forgiveness with reconciliation.
During the reconciliation ceremony, one person said “I was being instructed by that person to attack this older lady, which I don’t have any grudges against her nor she is not my enemy but a mother, an aunt and a sister”, surely I was being forced to do that to her.
It so obvious that sorcery is only a believe or a myth that was fabricated by any individual who misinterprets one day to day lifestyle, or personal grudges and family feuds, land disputes, jealousy or can be seen has the work of the devil to put man has an executioner to other man.
We must put end to sorcery belief.
We must stop believing in something that does not literally exists in spiritual form nor physically but an allegory that starts to grow its tentacles within our society.

Joe Parak@
Mt Guo Insectz022
Kundiawa