Papua New Guinea Tribesmen Step Up Lawsuit Against New Yorker

Papua New Guinea Tribesmen Step Up Lawsuit Against New Yorker

"Vengeance Is Ours," by Pulitzer Prize-winning academic Jared Diamond, appeared in the April 21, 2008, issue of The New Yorker. Wemp and co-plaintiff Isum Mandingo say it falsely depicts them as complicit in multiple murders, promoting rape and sanctioning prostitution, and is "largely fiction." Filed by Wemp's new lawyer, Jack Litman, who represented Robert Chambers in the infamous "Preppie Murder" case, the amended complaint raises the demand for damages to $45 million from an initial $10 million in the original suit filed in April.

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