New Guinea Warrior Sues New Yorker
A year ago, Guns, Germs & Steel author Jared Diamond published an essay in the New Yorker entitled, “Vengeance is Ours,” (read abstract here), where he detailed the ongoing and deadly feuds between New Guinea clans. Turns out that a clan member and key eye-witness, Daniel Wemp, has just turned on Diamond, and with the help of a lawyer, now claims cultural “otherness,” and that his “recollection” of murder, rape, and pig theft was all fiction. Wemp’s lawyer, Mako John Kuwimb, claims that Wemp “has never killed anyone or raped a woman. He certainly has never stolen a pig.”
New York Magazine has a bit more on this story here.
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