The police commander in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands province says he wants drastic intervention from the national government to help stop a decades-long tribal war.
Superintendent Martin Lakari says about 300 people have been killed in the war between the Kukutin and Yapetalin tribes in the past 30 years in the remote jungle on the border with Enga province.
Mr Lakari says the area is only accessible by helicopter, but the police don't have the funding or the resources to get there.
He says he wants an intervention similar to one in Hela province last year, where the PNG Defence Force was deployed to stop tribal fighting near the lucrative LNG gas project.
"The fighting is more or less like guerilla warfare with this hide-and-seek type killing, and this is out of control. The location itself is only accessible by chopper and police can't make it because of the mountain terrain."
Martin Lakari says he has urged local MPs and governors to provide the support needed to stop the fighting, but he is yet to hear anything.
"We can't [do anything], unless a chopper is hired and police manpower from here be sent to try and negotiate for peace, to try and put the trouble to an end. We want an intervention here."
