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Thread ID: 7112 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-06-04
2003-06-04 03:16 | User Profile
Two UN soldiers killed and eatan in the Congo
**Murder And Cannibalism: Two UN Men Die In Congo
Torture, murder and cannibalism: how two UN men died in Congo
Death, when it came, must have been a relief for the two UN soldiers. Stationed at an isolated gold mine in war-racked Ituri province, they were supposed to be observing peace yet fell victim to some of the worst horrors of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. When the bodies of Major Safwat Oran of Jordan and Captain Siddon Davis Banda of Malawi were finally recovered, their UN colleagues were aghast. Their corpses were covered in cigarette burns, shot in the head and had their sexual organs cut off.
A horrified UN condemned the "savage" killings of its observers, whose severed sexual organs - according to some reports the hearts and livers were also missing - raised the possibility of cannibalism. During the battle for Bunia, some victims' remains were badly mutilated; some fighters wore penises and kidneys around their necks as magic amulets. Last December, during fighting for control of Mambasa, there were 12 confirmed cases of cannibalism.
url: [url=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=411557]http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa...sp?story=411557[/url]
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2003-06-04 03:42 | User Profile
Why do they do this? I would think that the practice would have died out...as there are dire health consequences from engaging in cannibalism (all other obvious objections aside).
What filthy savages...this is genuinely shocking (even for the dark continent).