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Date Posted: 15:52:35 01/18/00 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Tribal Wars in PNG

Mr Peipul says Stop this senseless carnage and has urged leaders to mediate in this case the SHP. Tribal wars as opposed to fights, the last which involves a lot of shouting and yodelling and a few injuries from a stray arrow is no longer a nonsensical humbug fashion belong ol bighead man. What are the economic costs to individuals and the nation? Should the national government was its hands and let the mountain people fight it out to the last man/meri, since no amount of police action and negotiation seems to be getting into their brains.

By the way this particular fight as other tribal wars have being going on for years even those said to be resolved. Having driven through two such fights between 1985 and 1987 I can understand the level of destruction that follows the wars. Trees chopped down, houses and other properties burned, animals and human beings slaughtered where they lay, all these shows the hatred of the people. Like Bougainvillans, we should also leave the highlanders to resolve this problem.

DEPUTY Opposition leader Peter Peipul yesterday called on leaders of the two tribal groups waging war on the outskirts
of Mendi town to intervene and stop the fighting in order to prevent any further killings.

The fight, which erupted last Thursday, involves the Unjamap and Wogia tribes, and has so far left three people dead.
Police have recovered firearms which they say were stolen from the Defence Force armoury, but say that they are
powerless to do anything to stop the fight.

Mr Peipul said it was in the hands of leaders and the clansmen themselves.

"I appeal to the fighting clans to lay down their arms. I call on leaders of the two tribes to urge them to lay down their
arms," Mr Peipul said.

He described the killings and destruction so far as a senseless carnage.

"If the fighting continues, more people will die; It's a senseless waste of human lives and I'm calling on the leaders to start
talking peace."

Mr Peipul particularly called on Trade and Industry Minister Michael Nali to lead the way in brokering peace between the
two tribes.

"I call on Mr Nali to get to work on stopping this fight, because he is from the area," he said. The Imbongu MP said he had
personally led a number of peace pilgrimages in the province, and was prepared to help in this conflict.

He said he had no reason to dispute the claim by police that Defence Force-issue weapons were being used.

He said he believed that supplying these weapons was the handiwork of leaders and former or renegade soldiers, and he
called for the surrender of these weapons.

On the banning of liquor and pokies in the province, he said the move has his full support.

"It's a big problem all over the country. Pokies have disrupted our social lives and this is a good start. It is the right move
and it must be made permanent so that the clean-up of Southern Highlands can be completed. I agree that the revenue is
nothing compared to the peace the people will enjoy and the benefits that a peaceful community can bring," he said.

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