The two villages where mothers killed EVERY baby born a boy for ten years

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1. • richmcl

   Sick. Seriously sick.
   "The Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands where it has been claimed women in two villages killed all their male children for a decade to prevent tribal warfare"

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2. • arianrhod

   I wouldn't really say it was sick. Misguided, maybe, but I think when you are in that situation, when you feel like you have no other way to end the fighting, you do desperate things like this. I feel terrible for those women. It must have been devastating for them.

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   1. • McCaffertyHimself

      @arianrhod I am sorry, but I have to disagree with you. This was sick not misguided. They kill innocent children because they want to end an evil created by adults. There is no logic in that whatsoever. If they were so intent on killing, why did they not kill the men who waged war? That would have solved their problem immediately. The women could have easily killed their husbands as they slept if they really wanted to end war. They obviously did not want to end war enough to kill the men they loved. Sick is the only clear label you can put on this.

      Now who are their daughters going to marry? They have killed all of the potential suitors for their daughters. What a ridiculous mess they have created.

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3. • fraterpheonix

   That is why the United States of America has the label as the best country in the world. I have heard this statement from others that have lived in other countries of the world. If you do live in the USA and you find yourself complaining about this or that, remember this article and so many like it. You may realize how great you have it even under a little dark rain cloud. Blessed Be.

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4. • exMixxer

   That's not a lot considering the fact that the U.S. kills millions of babies every years under the guise of "choice"

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6. • Mixx_ID_451

   uneducated people do stupid things. why not keep the baby boys, kill the fathers, and raise the boys better? just kidding, like that would have worked either. killing shouldn't have to be the answer to anything. but there are certain things to be said about human nature. war is one of them. it, unlike peace, exists in all cultures, developed or not. it's definitely interesting that these women tried such a thing. there has to be more to their psyche than just 'kill all the boys to end the war'. the article mentioned they believe heavily in sorcery. perhaps they practice the use of some sort of mind altering substance as so many of these types of cultures often do. then again, it's a different world, a different mind. maybe we could all use a little more intelligence as a species

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7. • angrykeyboarder

   Very sad. :(

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8. • KareAnderson

   "uneducated" - perhaps yet we are all educated by our environment. Certainly the "sunshine" of visibility at this great sites helps us all face our hot buttons and sometimes even band together to do some small thing to support people in changing. I'll now get off my soapbox, thank you

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9. • yoda

   it may come across as sad, but these women have a point too, i think.

   i'm not saying it's right, but i'm not so sure anyone has the right to judge this other culture, so far removed from "western civilization". i don't think western wars prove us to be better people, that's for sure. carpet bombing of civilians? hiroshima? spraying villagers with toxic chemicals in the "war on drugs"? a million dead in Iraq?

   we need to look at our own actions before we are so quick to judge these people living more or less in a stone age society.

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   1. • arianrhod

      @yoda
      That was part of the point I was trying to make, and I agree with you :) Thank you for not joining in the rash and judgmental views too prevalent these days.

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   2. • McCaffertyHimself

      @arianrhod And a good point it is. But still. How can a mother kill her own child for any reason? I cannot understand that. Mothers have a special bond to their children. Most mothers would let themselves die before they would give up the life of their child.

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   3. • arianrhod

      @McCaffertyHimself
      I think we don't understand the hell these women have gone through, what they've seen for so long, they pain and agony that they have gone through seeing their partners, brothers, sons dying over and over again. How can they kill their children? How can they let them grow up to be consumed in a war they feel futile, as well? They just want to break the cycle in any way that they can. Likely they have already tried everything else to end this, but it's hard to end something when the "stronger" influence overturns you at every point.
      I can't really say why they would do this, what exactly their motivations are, since I don't know any of them, and I really don't know much about their culture. I can only say I see in this decision their desperation, and what I imagine must be terrible heartbreak for them, and I feel badly for them in those regards.
      Edit: I forgot to add, that these women know that their children's lives are already forfeit in the warfare that has driven them to this decision.

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   4. • McCaffertyHimself

      @arianrhod Well, it is certain that they are tormented and anguished, that is for sure. I guess that we cannot understand how they did this, only that they did. It is very sad that any of it had to happen.

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   5. • arianrhod

      @McCaffertyHimself
      I absolutely agree with you on that.

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