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*[[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]]. | *[[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". | *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". | ||
**In a similar situation, cannibalism was also widespread in Ukraine during [[the Holodomor]], the man-made famine orchestrated by the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] from 1932 to 1933. | |||
*Many members of the [[Revolutionary United Front]] practiced cannibalism during the Sierra Leone Civil War. | *Many members of the [[Revolutionary United Front]] practiced cannibalism during the Sierra Leone Civil War. | ||
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