1:19:36
Beautiful today though, isn't it?
1:19:41
The thing about the Indonesians,
they've got 13,000 islands...
1:19:45
and they're still expanding
and clearing the forests...
1:19:50
more rapaciously than
the Japanese ever did in Borneo.
1:19:55
It's a wicked situation.
1:19:57
And the Dani are really
being hounded into extinction.
1:20:01
You've gotta remember, these people
were only discovered in the early '50s.
1:20:05
They're Stone Age people.
1:20:07
There was an American flyer...
1:20:09
who crash-landed,
came across them.
1:20:13
It's extraordinary.
1:20:15
You know, one of the things
about their diet...
1:20:19
is that there were
no large mammals on Irian Jaya.
1:20:22
So the cannibalism, although
it had taken on a ritualistic...
1:20:26
symbolic significance...
1:20:28
it was actually about
their need for protein.
1:20:32
When they bring in
a prisoner from another tribe...
1:20:36
they tie them up
and then get the small children--
1:20:39
the four-year-olds
and five-year-olds--
1:20:42
to beat the prisoners...
1:20:46
to become very used
to the cruelty...
1:20:49
to assimilate this capacity...
1:20:53
to kill without any emotion.
1:20:56
It's very effective.
1:20:58
And then the beaten, broken bodies
are dragged into these fire pits...