Biden provokes – with cannibal accusation

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fullscreen Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape in Washington in September. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/TT

The mood is measured between the United States and the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea. The disagreement is based on President Joe Biden’s insinuations that his uncle was eaten by cannibals during World War II.

Biden’s uncle, Ensign Ambrose Joseph Finnegan, was shot down over Papua New Guinea’s main island in 1944, the president claimed during a memorial service for war veterans in Pennsylvania last week.

– They never found his body because there were a lot of cannibals in that part of New Guinea, Biden said.

Now Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is accusing Biden of insulting the Pacific nation, which was the scene of fierce fighting during World War II.

“President Biden’s move may have been a blunder. In any case, my country does not deserve to be branded in this way,” he said in a statement on Monday.

“The Second World War was not the work of my people. They were unnecessarily drawn into a conflict that was not theirs,” he continues.

At the same time, Marape calls on the US to look for its war victims in the country’s jungles and clean up the devastation after the war. Human remains, plane and shipwrecks, tunnels and unexploded bombs are scattered across large parts of Papua New Guinea and the neighboring Solomon Islands, he claims.

Additionally, Biden’s statement about the uncle’s fate is not supported by public records. According to the Defense Headquarters Pentagon, Finnegan was a passenger on a transport plane that in 1944 crashed into the sea after double engine failure.