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

They must have been truly desperate.

Wow.

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

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

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.

This broke my heart.

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…

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?

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.

@theslapster: the female babies…

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.

War.
War never changes.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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. . . .

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

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

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…

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!

Better they kill all the males than to have the women or girls killed.