Some worship monkeys and elephants with ten arms and three heads etc and now some are burning witches....LOONS

Back in Europe during our dark history,we burned people at the stake,or drowned them.And even the educated elite were purged of pagan beliefs.

This is a problem all over the world, not just in India. In certain African countries the problem is even worse. In countries with strict religious laws, such as certain Islamic ones, the problem also exists. The motivation is almost always jealousy, revenge, greed for someone else's property, or otherwise getting an inconvenient, odd, different or unsubmissve person out of the way. Motivation-wise, these 'witch-hunts' may be a little different from those that took place in Europe, which were a by-product of the earlier hunt for 'heretics'. However, the reasons for people taking the opportunity and 'informing' on their neighbors appears to be pretty much identical. I would like to know, though, who are the main targets: men or women, and who are the ones turning them in: men or women? In Africa, at least, men seem to be targeted as readily as women, and it is often family members of both genders bringing the charges. In Europe, men and women were targeted, but women were targeted far more often than men. Interestinly enough those doing the 'informing' on the women were overwhelmingly other women. It's a rather interesting topic that provides a lot of insight into what is basically indirect and socially sanctioned murder. I guess what I am trying to say is that many people would love to kill a rival for XYZ reasons, but are prevented by social conventions and other laws. Then you get laws like this, and they don't hesitate to use them in order get others to do their dirty work for them.

Yes in India a large no. of religious groups do it under the name of such stupid concepts like witch and ghosts. You can not change the class of people so easily. After all class is Permanent thing.

She doesn't do a very good job of directly answering the questions. ie "Why only women, why not men as well...?" And she says that many religions portray women as evil and impure, following up with "because it's tradition." But really, why? Is the society still very gender biased? Is it because women are weaker, an easier target than single men? When the interviewer asked her why less than 2% are convicted, she goes into a new law... instead of answering really, *why* so few are convicted. Is it a corrupt system? Do they let the case run cold, and the evidence disappear over time? The judicial system is "complicated" in what way, that women cannot have justice for their abuse?