Tuesday, September 14, 2010

New Guinea Infanticide

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090131/The-villages-mothers-killed-EVERY-baby-born-boy-years.html

Infanticide in New Guinea.

Having studied the tribes of Papua New Guinea in University, I know their culture is very much unlike our own. However I do believe that every human knows that murder is murder and we are not meant to kill our own. Some might say that they just did not know better but how could you not? That would be like saying Hitler knew not what he was doing and that he truly thought only the whites should live so it was okay.
By mass murdering all of the male babies in their village these women were not protecting themselves and their fellow tribes people but in fact ensuring death and destruction upon the whole tribe. Who are their female babies to mate with once all the males are extinct? Sure, there may be no fighting but there will be no families, and no future in store for these tribes. It just makes me so sad that it would not have mattered if one or two women felt differently about the matter.. Their child would have been killed against their will. There hasn't been a male child to survive in 10 years! I can only how many innocent were slaughtered for "peace." It's a whole new type of war. Killing the young to spare the old. As a mother, that's unfathomable to me.

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