How tribal courts can end war: Traditions stem gunfire after 4,800 die in Enga, Papua New Guinea
Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 13:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Mostly isolated from outsiders until the 1950s, Papua New Guinea's Enga tribes fought with bows and arrows until 1990, when their young people and mercenary "Rambos" began using shotguns and semiautomatic rifles, igniting 20 years of warfare that killed 4,816 people.