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

They must have been truly desperate.

Wow.

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'... :P

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

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

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

What "next generation" is that, exactly?

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.

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

This broke my heart.

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

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...

The noble savage

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?

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

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.

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.

@theslapster: the female babies...

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

Just saying.

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.

now thats activism!

War.
War never changes.

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

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

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

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

What mother would do this to their child?

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

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.

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.

all non-Christian people are baby killers.
Right.

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.

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.

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. . . .

just. plain. stupid.

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

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!?

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

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.

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...

@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.
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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.

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!

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.

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