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Article: Cannibalism shows depths of war's evil, bishop says. (World).(Congo)(Brief Article)
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- February 14, 2003
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CONGO: Cannibalism is not part of Congo's culture, but reports that rebels have eaten their victims or forced others to eat family members shows the depths of depravity the four-year civil war is reaching, said Bishop Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku of Butembo-Beni, Congo. The United Nations is investigating the reports, "and we hope that the world will realize what is happening here; every day new crimes are discovered," the bishop said in a Jan. 30 report for Fides, news agency of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. "This was not a case of tribal rituals," he said. "These crimes foment racism, which paints Africa and Africans as ...
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