Papua New Guinea - one of the states of the British Commonwealth, located in the Pacific Ocean relatively close to Australia. This is a constitutional monarchy led by the British Queen Elizabeth II, whose supreme legislative body is the National Parliament. Elections to it began on June 23, 2012, and were supposed to end on the 28th, but the dates had to be extended for several reasons, one of which is very non-trivial - the cannibalism of voters.
Unlike most states, elections in Papua New Guinea are never held on the same day - this is due to the fact that almost 4.6 million voters live on six hundred islands. The urban population in this country is less than 20%, and many rural polling stations are located in the highlands of the islands, which have to be reached by helicopters. Therefore, the election of 109 members of the National Parliament in the country of the Papuans and Melanesians is always a difficult and quick process. And this year they slowed down even more for reasons of a natural nature (a flood occurred in a number of provinces) and because of attempts to interfere with the expression of will by some of the nearly 3, 500 candidates.
And in several districts of Madang province of the largest island of the country, the voting process was stopped due to the fact that voters were afraid to go outside, fearing an attack by cannibalistic sectarians. Police arrested 29 people accused of killing seven local residents. All those arrested are members of a sect that began its activity by fighting various sorcerers who deceived sick people. However, then the fighters for justice believed in their special ability to identify sorcerers among ordinary people and set a goal to destroy them all. And to strengthen these abilities, new sectarians began to eat fragments of the bodies of the victims. According to information published in the press, this local community of cannibals totals about five hundred people and is headed by the headman of one of the communities. The police have not yet arrested the head of the cannibals, but there is a 13-year-old teenager among the detainees. The twelve arrestees will be charged with premeditated murder, and all members of the sect are suspected of cannibalism.
