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==Known cannibals== | ==Known cannibals== | ||
*[[Albert Fish]] | *[[Albert Fish]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Andrei Chikatilo]] | ||
*[[Armin Meiwes]] | *[[Armin Meiwes]] | ||
*[[Arthur Shawcross]] | |||
*[[Boone Helm]] | |||
*[[Dorángel Vargas]] | |||
*[[Edmund Kemper]] | |||
*[[François l'Olonnais]] | |||
*[[Fritz Haarmann]] | |||
*[[Hadden Clark]] | |||
*[[Idi Amin]] | *[[Idi Amin]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Issei Sagawa]] | ||
*[[Jack the Ripper]] | |||
*[[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] | *[[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Jeffrey Dahmer]] | ||
*[[Joachim Kroll]] | *[[Joachim Kroll]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Joseph Roy Metheny]] | ||
*[[Luka Magnotta]] | *[[Luka Magnotta]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Nathaniel Bar-Jonah]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Ottis Toole]] | ||
*[[Richard Trenton Chase]] | *[[Richard Trenton Chase]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]] | ||
==Other incidents of cannibalism== | ==Other incidents of cannibalism== | ||
*There have been reports of Japanese soldiers eating the organs of Chinese soldiers and prisoners of war during the [[Rape of Nanking]]. | *There have been reports of Japanese soldiers eating the organs of Chinese soldiers and prisoners of war during the [[Rape of Nanking]]. | ||
*During the last few years of the Second Congo War, Mbuti pygmies were hunted down and eaten by both sides in the conflict, who regarded them as subhuman. Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, appealed to the United Nations Security Council to recognize cannibalism as both a [[crime against humanity]] and an act of [[genocide]]. | *During the last few years of the Second Congo War, Mbuti pygmies were hunted down and eaten by both sides in the conflict, who regarded them as subhuman. Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, appealed to the United Nations Security Council to recognize cannibalism as both a [[crime against humanity]] and an act of [[genocide]]. | ||
*[[DINA]], the [[secret police]] of Chile during the [[Augusto Pinochet]] regime, were widely renowned for their extreme sadism and brutality. There are documented reports of DINA forcing prisoners of the [[concentration camp]]s they ran to cannibalize other prisoners when they died as a form of psychological [[torture]]. | |||
*There are widespread oral reports, and some official documentation, of cannibalism being practiced in various forms during the Great Chinese Famine (a product of dictator [[Mao Zedong]]'s "Great Leap Forward") from 1959 to 1961. Due to the scale of the famine, the resulting cannibalism has been described as "on a scale unprecedented in the history of the 20th century". | |||
*Many members of the [[Revolutionary United Front]] practiced cannibalism during the Sierra Leone Civil War. | |||
[[Category:Villainous Event]] | [[Category:Villainous Event]] | ||
[[Category:Murderer]] | [[Category:Murderer]] |