When inyanga Nino Mbatha walked into the Estcourt police station last weekend, officers wondered why he smelt so bad. The officer, who was an acquaintance of the well-known traditional healer, said policemen were not immediately sure what the smell was as Mbatha walked up to the desk at about 6pm on Friday. They would find out in grisly fashion. In the bag Mbatha carried were putrid body parts - a piece of a leg and a hand. This stomach-churning interaction led to the uncovering of a deep, dark secret in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands town. If police, community members and even the mayor are to be believed, people in Estcourt have been eating human flesh as part of a saga involving body parts for muti.
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For days I've been slogging through a rain-soaked jungle in Indonesian New Guinea, on a quest to visit members of the Korowai tribe, among the last people on earth to practice cannibalism. Soon after first light this morning I boarded a pirogue, a canoe hacked out of a tree trunk, for the last stage of the journey, along the twisting Ndeiram Kabur River. Now the four paddlers bend their backs with vigor, knowing we will soon make camp for the night. My guide, Kornelius Kembaren, has traveled among the Korowai for 13 years. But even he has never been this far upriver, because, he says, some Korowai threaten to kill outsiders who enter their territory.
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Patrons at a vegetarian restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand, were turned off when they found chunks of meat in their food, but they were even more disgusted once they discovered it was human flesh. Although the restaurant goers didn't initially realize it was human meat on their plates, they reported the "vegetarian" establishment to authorities, Singaporean news site Asia One reported Monday. Upon further investigation, police made a grisly and disturbing discovery—the remains of a missing year-old, who had frequented the restaurant, were discovered in the kitchen, which was spattered with blood.
A set of grisly photographs were originally circulated online in August , typically accompanied by text claiming they pictured modern day cannibals in an Asian country e. I doubt those photos are real. This must be a show or something.
