Papua New Guinea Village Women Killed All Male Babies to Avoid War

1. Evilbeagle
   November 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

   They must have been truly desperate.

   Wow.

2. Evilbeagle
   November 28th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

   Just another thought... couldn't they have just raised the boys in dresses and taught them that weapons are only for hunting or something? Just sayin'...

3. Orjan Morjan
   November 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

   Why not kill the old people who corrupt the young ones?

4. redphone
   November 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

   well. THAT'S not gonna come back to haunt them later...

5. MikeJ
   November 28th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

   That is just bizarre and sad. It's certainly going to affect the next generation of this tribe.

6. The Slapster
   November 28th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

   What "next generation" is that, exactly?

7. Rocky Rook
   November 28th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

   Very shocking. What a stark contrast to the Spartans who killed the weak babies instead of the strong ones who would later go on to be warriors.

8. DOJ
   November 28th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

   That's one way to end a war; Don't have any warriors. Let the enemy win so the war ends, brilliant.

9. tinyflowers
   November 28th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

   This broke my heart.

10. ted
    November 28th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    Because only men can be violent, of course (insert irony here).

11. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    November 28th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    It must have been a pretty nasty situation, if they had to resort to this.

    Unfortunately, they're now going to die out. You'd think it would be better to just teach the boys not to fight. But women haven't managed to stop men from wanting to kill each other yet...

12. wow
    November 28th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    The noble savage

13. Ali S.
    November 28th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Well, in a way it's a clever method to stop war. But they've pretty much created a generational gap that cannot be fixed that could in the long run have severe and drastic effects to their social system and demographic. What stops another tribe from walking on in and wiping out both tribes now?

14. Sofar
    November 28th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    There'll still be war. It's man that's the problem, not males.

15. Johnny Cat
    November 28th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Wow, this really slapped me silly. Huh? Wha?

    Okay, I can see their argument, but this is the solution? To paraphrase George Carlin, "What, are we frakkin' STUPID?" Way to wipe out the whole shebang, ladies. Good luck with that. Oh, and that whole murder thing, too.

16. Becca
    November 28th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Oh wow this is just like that "tales of the darkside" episode.. where this man is frozen in the past and wakes up in the future and all the men in the world are dead.

17. Jacki
    November 28th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    @theslapster: the female babies...

18. Some Canadian Skeptic
    November 28th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    I guess its just me, but in the picture, it looks like four people are standing in giant penis costumes.

    Just saying.

19. Qjet
    November 28th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    then all the men decide to kill all the female babies cause they end up blaming all their problems on the men.

    end of tribe.

20. FIG
    November 29th, 2008 at 1:04 am

    now thats activism!

21. chet
    November 29th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    War.
    War never changes.

22. earbox
    November 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am

    Clearly, they should have worked out a trade agreement with China.

23. raina_c
    November 29th, 2008 at 2:10 am

    Wow...what a drastic move. All I can say is clever comment earbox.

24. Dale
    November 29th, 2008 at 5:23 am

    Is that not slightly akin to genocide? Is there a form of self genocide? suigenocide?

25. Absent
    November 29th, 2008 at 5:54 am

    They'll end up having to capture and kidnap men for snu-snu.

26. sloane
    November 29th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    What mother would do this to their child?

27. Ralph
    November 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    How did they pull this off with the men that were alive at the time the decision was made?

28. Praises
    November 29th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    This is non-Christian culture for you.

    I pray for these people and hope missionaries can reach them so their souls can be saved from these horrific acts.

29. mountain
    November 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Actually it's gendercide. It's still sick though, killing babies to prevent war? What exactly have you prevented then, you've just launched your own war much more ruthless than a few warriors with bows and arrows could pull off.

30. Because
    November 29th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    all non-Christian people are baby killers.
    Right.

31. astrodex
    November 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    No Christian society has ever committed genocide. Right.

    I hope that they can be offered education so that they can know that, whatever their religion, men have value beyond their warrior skills. And they, as women, have value beyond their child rearing skills. Which are sorely lacking at the moment.

32. Evilbeagle
    November 30th, 2008 at 6:40 am

    Praises, get over yourself. Christians are responsible for more death, destruction, and atrocity than these people could ever hope to achieve. I'm not defending this horrible decision that these people have taken, but look to history before you make these self righteous, inaccurate, and quite frankly, stupid comments. You are no better than a terrorist with that attitude.

33. river talk
    December 2nd, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    how sad. . .this does bring a viseral reaction as it should. . .but for how long has other countries been doing this to female babies. . .perhaps for lesser reason than this. . . .

34. samlive
    December 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    just. plain. stupid.

35. Alexandra Charleston-B.
    December 5th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    unbelieveable...what mother would ever decide to kill her own child? weren't there any mothers who refused?were their child taken away from them and killed? well, thats one way to stop war....id just love to know who came up wi that "Brilliant" (sarcasm)plan...
    imagined if they had tried to kill the husbands too...

    wow

36. vero4902
    December 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    As others have said, men do not necessarily equal wars. It's upbringing - they couldn't have done some, oh, I don't know, parenting!?

37. Nesian_101
    December 8th, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    SHUX!! Unbelievable.
    I guess the only way to avoid war all reallly depends on the up bringing of the boys. If you raise them to be warriors then they will have that mentality of being a future warrior.

    By killing all boys will only result to no future generation, how are the women of the village suppose to conceive any when there arent any men to begin with.

    THINK ABOUT IT!!

    Nesian_101

38. angry
    April 19th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Evilbeagle: Get over YOURSELF. Name me a small group of Christians in the last century that did the same thing...To compare the actions of millions of any people vs. one tribe is ridiculous. Of course there is no way that the women in the tribe have been responsible for more total deaths than all the Christians combined.

39. nooneelse
    April 19th, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    babies grow into men and men grow into warriors...Now, how great will it have been when:
    A) someone else who DOES have men decides to invade
    B) the villagers later cannot reproduce (except by rape from the invaders)
    C) the women get killed by some other villagers. and/or lesbianism ensues. Mmm...

40. Sweet
    August 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 am

    @nooneelse-
    A) The women from all the surrounding villages are participating in this. So no need to worry about invaders.
    B) Any child conceived in rape is to be killed or aborted.
    C) A tribe of all females -amazons not lesbians- is a great addition to society to remind the boys that women don't need them for anything but sex.
    -------------------------------------------------------

    Response to article...
    This is an excellent way to get males under control. It's a short term kill of a few baby boys, not a whole generation i.e. 20 years. It shows the men who's really got power over life, then the men will behave, no more boys will be killed. It will only be a year or two at most, hardly having any generational consequences. Japanese women did this to scare the hell out of American men when they invaded. The women were feared and the men behaved towards them.

41. Sad
    September 6th, 2009 at 1:47 am

    Truly sad that these victimized women had to go so far as to kill their own babies. As a mother myself, I would/will never harm my child. These women must have been brutally raped and (or) victimized very badly. Maybe their children's fathers were the rapists. Then, severe poverty and lack of education come in. My heart goes out to all the victims, the mothers and their beloved babies!

42. 1525
    September 6th, 2009 at 5:27 am

    And why will the next batch of kids be any different from the ones they just fed to the crows? I certainly don't foresee this incident instilling them with any great reverence for human life. Bloody savages.

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