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He made headlines in the country after accusing Indonesia of committing human rights violations (HAM) of the Papuan people at the UN international forum, a small country “far from everywhere” in Vanuatu, suddenly boisterous in the media.
Indonesian diplomats themselves claimed that the Pacific countries’ accusations were unfounded and demanded that they stop interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
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“It is a shame that this country (Vanuatu) continues to have an excessive and unhealthy obsession with how Indonesia should act or regulate itself,” said young diplomat Silvany Austin Pasaribu in a PJTRI statement on Sunday (September 27, 2020).
But what is this “fierce little” country really like? Turns out there are a number of surprising Vanuatu facts, from cannibalism to bungee jumping that first appeared here.
What else? The following is compiled by Galamedia from yts.vu:
1. New free cannibalism in 1970
Most anthropologists agree that the last cannibalism in Vanuatu occurred in 1969. Squires reports that until more than 50 years ago, the islanders of Vanuatu had a reputation for being terrible cannibals.
In 1839, the first two British missionaries sent by the London Missionary Society were killed and were victims of cannibalism on the Isle of Martyrs, which is now known as Erromango.
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