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On October 25, 2022, violence broke out between the Kuboma and Kulumata on Kiriwina Island, part of the Trobriand Islands chain of Papua New Guinea. The violence was the deadliest in Kiriwina history, and saw over thirty people killed.
In an 1899 speech, Richard Carnac Temple, who was chief commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 1895 to 1904, reported that he had toured North Sentinel island to capture fugitives, [clarification needed] but upon landing discovered that they had been killed by the inhabitants, who retreated in haste upon seeing his party approach ...
The February 2024 Enga Province massacre occurred on 18 February, 2024, where dozens of people were shot and 44 killed in a tribal dispute in Wapenamanda District, Enga Province, the remote highlands region of Papua New Guinea. [1] Casualties numbered at least 49, including both combatants and bystanders. [2]
The violence. Three people - two men and a woman, all indigenous Kanaks - have been shot dead in the violent protests and looting, according to Charles Wea, spokesperson for Louis Mapou, President ...
North Sentinel is surrounded by coral reefs, and lacks natural harbours. The entire island, other than the shore, is forested. [31] There is a narrow, white-sand beach encircling the island, behind which the ground rises 20 metres (66 ft), and then gradually to between 46 and 122 metres (151 and 400 ft) [1] [32]: 257 near the
Soaring rates of violent acts impacting Indigenous communities and mounting unsolved cases have prompted a surge of FBI agents, analysts and victim specialists from across the country to help ...
The vast majority of mine workers were from the mainland and the mine was causing environmental damage, leading to tensions. The people of the islands of Bougainville felt a greater cultural and geographical connection to the rest of the Solomon Archipelago, such as the nation of Solomon Islands, than they did to mainland Papua New Guinea. [4]
Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...