Boy babies die, women hardest hit

I was horrified to read at a href=”http://ace.mu.nu/archives/278913.php”Ace of Spades /aabout two villages of women in Papua New Guinea who have killed all male babies to keep them a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090131/The-villages-mothers-killed-EVERY-baby-born-boy-years.html”from waging war:/abr /br /blockquoteThe Papua New Guinea jungle has given up one of its darkest secrets – the systematic slaughter of every male baby born in two villages to prevent future tribal clashes.br /br /By virtually wiping out the ‘male stock’, tribal women hope they can avoid deadly bow-and-arrow wars between the villages in the future.br /br /’Babies grow into men and men turn into warriors,’ said Rona Luke, a village wife who is attending a special ‘peace and reconciliation’ meeting in the mountain village of Goroka./blockquotebr /br /I agree with the point made ata href=”http://ace.mu.nu/archives/278913.php” Ace’s place:/abr /br /blockquoteThe report sympathetically portrays these women as desperate hut wives who, faced with tribal extinction, are forced to take extreme measures in order to survive. One wonders how sympathetic the writers of this story would be if the men of the tribe killed all of the female babies to prevent them from growing up and committing male infanticide./blockquotebr /br /I doubt they would be sympathetic at all. But the commenters to the emDaily Mail /emarticle that discussed the story certainly had sympathy for these female infant killers. One has to wonder about what kind of twisted morality commenters like the following must possess to a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090131/The-villages-mothers-killed-EVERY-baby-born-boy-years.html”write the following:/a br /br /blockquoteStop judging these people with Western ethics. The commenters here have no idea how these people live and deal with life. I’ve lived with New Guineans and their minds do not work in the same way as Westerners. Overall they are gentle people and things must have got pretty bad for the womenfolk to kill their own children. In their minds it was the only way to save the village. Save your disgust for the baby killers in this country who should know better.br /br /In any conflict, it’s always the women and children who suffer through no doing of their own. And when everything has been ruined, and the men killed, they have to pick up the pieces and restore everything. They must have really had enough to kill their own children like that.br /br /How horrendous that these women so no other option but to kill there own babies to prevent heartache in the future,its a lose lose situation for them./blockquotebr /br /No sympathy at all for the male infants that died, just for the women who emhad/em to do the killing, how pathetic.