he was shot down in new guinea and his body was never found because there were a lot of cannibals in that part of new guinea. prime minister of popua. new guinea's james marape has accused joe biden of disparaging the south pacific island nation because the us president said his uncle was eaten by cannibals during the second world war. biden's comments offended a key strategic ally as china is seeking to increase its influence in the region. marape in his statement said that biden implied that his uncle was eaten by cannibals, president biden's remarks may have sounded offhand, but my country does not deserve such a label. the second... war was not the work of my people, but they were unnecessarily drawn into the conflict, marape added. the prime minister's statement came on the same day he met chinese foreign minister wang yi in port moresby to discuss building closer relationships. joe biden's statement offended the people of papoa new guinea, not only because cannibalism has never happened in that country, but rather because biden meant that they would eat any white guy who happen