Editing Infanticide (section)

===Oceania===
On November 28, 2008, ''The National'', one of Papua New Guinea's two largest newspapers at the time, ran a story entitled "Male Babies Killed To Stop Fights"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenational.com.pg/281108/nation5.php |title=Nation &#124; the National Newspaper |website=www.thenational.com.pg |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201083337/http://www.thenational.com.pg/281108/nation5.php |archive-date=1 December 2008 }}</ref> which claimed that in Agibu and Amosa villages of Gimi region of [[Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)|Eastern Highlands]] province of [[Papua New Guinea]] where tribal fighting in the region of Gimi has been going on since 1986 (many of the clashes arising over claims of [[Witchcraft|sorcery]]) women had agreed that if they stopped producing males, allowing only female babies to survive, their tribe's stock of boys would go down and there would be no men in the future to fight. They had supposedly agreed to have all newborn male babies killed. It is not known how many male babies were supposedly killed by being smothered, but it had reportedly happened to all males over a 10-year period.

However, this claim about male infanticide in Papua New Guinea was probably just the result of inaccurate and sensationalistic news reporting, because [[Salvation Army]] workers in the region of Gimi denied that the supposed male infanticide actually happened, and said that the tribal women were merely speaking hypothetically and hyperbolically about male infanticide at a peace and reconciliation workshop in order to make a point. The tribal women had never planned to actually kill their own sons.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-12-01/salvos-deny-png-baby-killing-reports/225248|title = Salvos deny PNG 'baby killing' reports|newspaper = ABC News|date = December 2008|access-date = 17 September 2021|archive-date = 17 September 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210917230341/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-12-01/salvos-deny-png-baby-killing-reports/225248|url-status = live}}</ref>