HUMAN SACRIFICES
CUSTOMS IN BURMA CHIEFS PROMISE ABOLITION. (A. and NX) CALCUTTA, May 13. The Government’s Burma expedition to the Naga hilly country to secure the abandonment of slavery was successful in securing the abandonment of human sacrifices.
Many large tribes and 500 chiefs attended a conference, at which it- was decided to sacfice animals only in the future. The chiefs gave the expedition officers 150 skulls of former vic lims as evidence of their intention.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 11
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76HUMAN SACRIFICES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 11
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