According to Unus Walilo, pastor of the church in Apahapsili, a village high in the mountains, the Yali people ‘didn’t know anything about the outside world.
‘We lived in the Stone Age, killing each other, eating our enemies. We didn’t know any other life’, said Unus.
All this changed in 1965 after some Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) pilots discovered the much-feared cannibalistic community during an aerial survey flight. Unus remembers the day they arrived.
