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Well, here's a news flash: Putin told the truth. Cannibalism is very common in African war zones. Trevor should read the news from places like Congo more carefully, like this story carried in the Economist a few weeks ago:

"Zainabo Alfani:was stopped by men in uniform on a road in Ituri [in NE Congo] last year. She and 13 other women were ordered to strip, to see if they had long vaginal lips, which the gunmen believed would have magical properties. The 13 others did not, and were killed on the spot. Zainabo did. The gunmen cut them off and then gang-raped her. Then they cooked and ate her two daughters in front of her. They also ate chunks of Zainabo's flesh. She escaped, but had contracted HIV. She told her story to the UN in February, and died in March."

When she regains consciousness, she sees her attackers sharing the piece of flesh they cut from her loins. They cut into her right foot, her left forearm, and underneath her right breast, in order to extract her blood. Five among her attackers, no doubt the leaders of the group, shallow a mixture of her blood and water, along with pieces of her flesh. After this ritual, they take her and her three children farther into the brush, some 2 kilometers away. Zainabo is totally lost. They arrive somewhere that seems to serve as a sort of kitchen, where she sees human bones. A "cook" is skewing pieces of a human body over an open flame. Meanwhile, more cooks are heating up oil and water.

The men in uniform seize Zainabo's two girls, 10-year-old Alima and 8 year-old Mulassi, and submerge them, one after the other, in the barrels. They mix them with a large iron rod used as a spoon and pierce their stomachs in order to ensure a proper "cooking". They eat one of the bodies with foufou (a Congolese specialty, dough made of manioc) and they save the other body for later in the night.

Geebs wrote:Yeah, but Saddam wasn't as good a customer to Mercedes as your average african dictator.

Geebs wrote:Well, it's largely in their former colonies

Geebs wrote:Erm, Africa has humungous mineral wealth. No-one fights over nothing, apart from the Haitians.

Memphis wrote:

Kracus wrote:I don't think it's society at this point that makes us feel the way we feel for committing an atrocious act I think it's more like instinct....

Well you're right it is social reasons but regardless of what social upbringing you were brought up in I just can't picture a sane human being thinking it's acceptable to skewer a child, or cut pieces of flesh off of living people for food, it's absolute insanity on a regional scale.

You will never recognise your own closed-mindedness will you?

Furthermore, instinct is BUILT from your exposure to your environment.

If someone put a gun to the back of your head, you duck, scream and shit yourself
If you put a gun to the head of someone who was too young, or hasn't had the exposure to know what a gun was, they would do nothing

Kracus wrote:Still though, even if you're brought up in that fashion and turn out completely remorseless for acts as horrific as the ones described in that article you would think an intelligent person would understand what they are doing is wrong.