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Article: CURSE OF THE CANNIBALS; Fiji apologised this week for killing and eating a British missionary 136 years ago. But the truth is that cannibalism has been practised by every race ... including our own.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2003
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Byline: MICHAEL HANLON
THIS IS the lunch that dare not speak its name. A practice whose origins lie in Man's stone-age past; once a way of life and even a matter of survival, but in more modern times a taboo that makes civilised men shudder.
Cannibalism, the eating of human flesh, is a subject shrouded in mystery, myth, illinformed speculation and, of late, political correctness.
This week it was revealed that Ratu Filimoni Wawabalavu, a Fijian chief, is to hold a ceremony next month to atone for the murder - and consumption - of an unfortunate British missionary 136 years ago.
The Reverend Thomas Baker was on good terms with the ...