PNG still happens - and also Arnhem Land I am told.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14259359/Papua-New-Guinea-rocked-horrif...


Papua New Guinea is rocked by 'horrific acts of cannibalism' as bow and arrow-wielding gang poses with body parts vowing to 'cook and eat it'

Papua New Guinea has been rocked by 'horrific acts of cannibalism' with a bow and arrow-wielding gang seen posing with hacked off body parts.

In grisly photos published Monday on the front page of the nation's largest newspaper, the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, a group of machete-wielding men dangle what appears to be a severed human foot.

Although the men are not filmed eating the body part, one of them appears to make a licking gesture while holding it up for the camera, while others around him smile and point to the chopped-off limb.

Papua New Guinea's Police Minister Peter Tsiamalili said he was deeply troubled by the images that appeared to depict 'horrific acts of cannibalism'.

'A violent confrontation between two brothers escalated, leading to a heartbreaking outcome,' he told AFP.

'The conflict saw villagers taking sides, ultimately resulting in the gruesome killing of the elder brother by the younger sibling.'

In the video which has gone viral on social media, several men armed with bows and arrows are seen brandishing parts of severed bodies, the newspaper said.   

The Courier also reported that police are set to fly into the area to investigate the killing of seven people over the weekend amid claims from one local that 'this is our meat, we will cook and eat it'.

Tsiamalili said in a separate statement dated Sunday 'such barbarity does not define us as a people or a nation'.

'These barbaric actions by a group of youths not only shock our collective conscience but also pose a grave threat to the societal values that bind us as a nation,' he said.

'Such acts of inhumanity are intolerable and represent a significant challenge to our shared humanity.'

Police traced the images to the Goilala district in the country's jungle-clad interior.

The killing took place 'a month ago' in Saki Village, Tsiamalili said, although the video had only recently gained traction online.    

Papua New Guinea has long been tarred by outdated tropes that paint its people as savages.

Historically, cannibalism has been documented among a small number of tribes in remote parts of Papua New Guinea.

United States President Joe Biden last year quipped that his fighter pilot uncle may have been eaten by cannibals after he was shot down during World War II.

'He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea,' Biden said.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape later dismissed the gaffe as 'loose' talk on the part of the president.

'I've met him on four occasions, until today, and on every occasion he's always had warm regards for Papua New Guinea,' Marape said.

'Never in those moments (has) he spoke of PNG as cannibals,' he added.

Clothes they could never make
Smiles and chop-licking gestures fully aware of the camera, fully switched on to electronic media
Smart phone, plastic bag

21st century meets the barbaric, primitive stone age.

"Just people like us", innit?

No.

Just because there is no evidence of cannibalism among indigenous people "today", Brian, does not mean that there was not cannibalism among indigenous people in the past.

Cannibalism on all continents seems to be rare but not unheard of. When that lady in South Australia tried to feed her children cooked body parts before a raid stopped the attempt, it does not mean that all Australians are partakers of cannibalism.

Given that explorers have witnessed indigenous Australians eating their dead children, it would not be all that far-fetched to think that cannibalism among indigenous people happened commonly until the 1960s. No reports have been made public about cannibalism in Australia (other than the bodies in the barrels incident) since then.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 12:45pm:


No one is denying that Cannibalism was practiced in the long past, UnSub.  What is being questioned is "Boris's" claim that it is ongoing without any documentary proof.  You seem to believe it is still occurring.  Why?  What proof do you have that it occurs?  Any at all?  No, I didn't think so.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

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You are referring to the case of Katherine Knight.  It occurred in NSW, not South Australia.  She is imprisoned in the Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre in NSW.  She committed her crime in 2000.  She was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

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It is important to establish from the outset that there is no credible historical evidence to support allegations that indigenous Australians practised Cnnibalism.  No witnesses, nothing.

Time you did some research, UnSub.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 2:29pm:


Up to 1975 Papua and New Guinea were part of Australia and PNG natives were Indigenous Australians.

In fact many Islands near PNG are Australia with PNG Natives on them that are Australian Indigenous Torres Straight Islanders - also Cannibals.

You know they murder and rape babies - you are happy with that because their Kultcha is sacred to you - but you draw the line at munching on babies - raping them is OK according to you.

PNG still happens - and also Arnhem Land I am told.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14259359/Papua-New-Guinea-rocked-horrif...


Papua New Guinea is rocked by 'horrific acts of cannibalism' as bow and arrow-wielding gang poses with body parts vowing to 'cook and eat it'

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 2:39pm:


Brandenstein recorded it in the Pilbara when he was there. Were you there?

the late Dr C.G. von Brandenstein, who learnt at least four Pilbara languages, told me once that in hard times, dead infants would routinely go ‘into the pot’.

The Linguist von Brandenstein who worked with these people for 30 years was an eye witness and spoke of "dead infants would routinely go ‘into the pot’."

So that is from 1960 to 1990 from an eminent scholar...

But according to you it never happened.

Not ever? Never?

It is important to establish from the outset that there is no credible historical evidence to support allegations that indigenous Australians practised the forms of cannibalism sought by the colonists.

Bull Crap - it was recorded and it is well known Aborigines were / are Cannibals

It was dismissed in the earliest accounts of Watkin Tench, a mariner on the First Fleet: ‘From their manner of disposing of those who die […] as well as from every other observation, there seems no reason to suppose these people cannibals’.



With regard to cannibalistic acts as practised by Australian
Aborigines, R. M. & C. H. Berndt '^ have shown, in a masterly
analysis of the principal reports available, that the majority of
these acts were of a ceremonial nature. The greatest number
of these practices were associated with the pietistic burial ritual;
whUst in many instances also the whole or part of the bodies
of Aborigines killed in battle were eaten by their enemies.
Other instances, were recorded, however, of the eating of the
flesh of Aboriginal men, women, and children; and it would be
untrue to say that all of these acts were performed from
pietistic motives, or out of revenge.
It is the intention of these notes to deal broadly with the
cannibalistic practices carried out by Australian Aborigines
and recorded by observers, to try to draw some conclusions
from them and to endeavour to apply these conclusions to
Queensland examples drawn from 19th Century observers and
archival sources.

According to R. M. and C. H. Berndt the practice of pietistic
burial cannibalism (known also as endo-cannibalism) was very
widespread throughout Australia. In many cases the whole of
the body, except the bones, intestines, and genitalia, was eaten:
however, the Dieri '^ and adjacent tribes of Central Australia
ate only the fatty parts of the face, thighs, arms, and stomach.
G. M. Sweeney ^^ reported instances of the practice of endocannibalism in Arnhem Land as recently as 1939. McCarthy ^''
concluded that the most important functions and meanings of
the whole of the funerary ritual were to assure the subject
"that his death is regretted, and in certain circumstances wUl
be avenged, that his body will be given traditional treatment,
and to ensure that his eternal and immortal spirit will be directed
and delivered so far as possible to its proper spirit home".
If this is correct, members of the deceased's tribal group would
have reason to fear the deceased's spirit if the traditional rites
were not observed. In some cases the participants hoped, by
partaking of the flesh of the deceased, to increase their strength >*;
in others to improve their hunting abiUty.^^



Whilst many historians and anthropologists urge great caution in applying European labels to pre-contact and early-contact indigenous practices, it is generally accepted that Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders — in some areas, in rare circumstances, and in the conduct of rituals — practised some forms of anthropophagy, notably mortuary cannibalism.[10] From an anthropological perspective, these practices had meanings to their practitioners that are not readily translated into colonial categories; anthropologists resist reading anthropophagous practices through the squeamish lens of Western cannibal myths, particularly where those myths are mobilised into debates about race-based hierarchies.

Good Cannibalism?

For these reasons, historians and anthropologists rejected allegations of Aboriginal cannibalism when they were re-articulated in 1997, when the publication of The Truth, attributed to (although not written by) Pauline Hanson, stated that Aborigines practised cannibalism and, especially, baby-eating. These cannibal claims were derived from works by Hector Holthouse, Henry Mayhew, various travellers and explorers and, especially, Daisy Bates who was cited in The Truth as stating: ‘In one group every woman who had had a baby had killed and eaten it, dividing it with her sisters, who, in turn, killed their children at birth and returned the gift of food’.[11] The Truth repeated these claims to ‘refute the romantic view of the Aborigines held by the new class’, and to deflect the ‘guilt’ of invasion and genocide.[12]

Bates proved it with the bones of babies discarded after they were eaten - Bates told the truth.

Let us hear for a change from the rational side of the argument.
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You are the peddler of lies, "Boris".  Tsk, tsk, tsk...