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During the 1932-1933 Russian
engineered famine called Holomodor (extermination by hunger) in Ukraine,
millions of Ukrainians died of starvation while some relatives, friends, and
neighbors engaged in cannibalism to survive. Survivor Olena Goncharuk felt the terror: “We were afraid
to go out in the village, because people were starving and they hunted
children. My neighbor had a daughter, who disappeared. We went to her house.
The head was separated from the body, and the body was cooking in the oven.”
http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/22/ukraine-s-enduring-holodomor-horror-when-millions-starved-in-the-1930s/
I wrote about the
inhumanity of desperate and callous human beings in the quest for survival – it
is glaring and devastating evidence why communists should never be allowed to
take power again. Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans died at the hands of their
Soviet Socialist tormentors who confiscated their crops by force and shipped
the food to the USSR. Wheat and corn was left to rot and mold in uncovered
wagons at train stations; it was done to leave farmers as poor and desperate as
possible in order to better manipulate and control them. It was a Soviet state secret - nobody was allowed to write or speak
about the horrors that took place in Chisinau, Orhei, Balti, Cahul, and other
villages, how collectivization agents took the last drop of food and grain from
the farmer’s barns, and how the children of Moldova were kidnapped, brought
into homes, murdered, cooked, and eaten.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58869
The infamous Donner Party (1846-1847)
composed of 87 emigrants from Illinois was trapped en route to Sutter’s Fort
(Sacramento of today) in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by heavy snow with little
food, shelter, or possibility of rescue since the Mexican War was fought at the
time. A year later, 46 people were finally rescued, having survived by cannibalizing
the deceased. Two-thirds of the men died but two-thirds of the women and
children lived. Most of the members of the Donner family did not survive.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/donner1.html
Unspeakable horror, abuses,
suffering, and mass murder experienced by humans at the hand of other humans
pale in comparison with the Nazi genocide, Stalin’s genocide, Pol Pot’s Khmer
Rouge, and Mao’s genocide. Unfortunately, the party responsible for millions of
deaths in China is still in power, having celebrated in December 2013 120 years
since the birth of Mao Zedong, the man responsible for the death of millions, “arbitrary
imprisonment, beatings, torture, rape, sustained harassment, seizure of
property, deprivation of food and medical attention, and many other [indescribable]
abuses” such as cannibalism.
According to Laogai Foundation’s
Report, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution define Mao’s legacy
of terror.
“Between 1958-1962, tens
of millions of people starved to death as a result of the Great Leap Forward,
an attempt by Mao to overtake Britain as an economic world power in less than
15 years. During the GLF, private farming was entirely prohibited and
households all over China were forced into state-operated communes. Anyone who
dared challenge the practice or store their own food was violently persecuted,
with many beaten to death. The impact was catastrophic. An estimated 30 to 45
million died as a direct result of this man-made disaster. Almost all of them
were peasants.” The party members who had access to the confiscated food were
spared. The food shortage was so severe that people ate tree bark, mud, wild
vegetables, grass, frogs, snakes, animal droppings, and each other. (Cannibalism
in China, Laogai Research Foundation, October 2013)
According to the Laogai
Research Foundation, witnesses who managed to flee labor camps in China were
forced to return for lack of food. Inmates learned to catch frogs and snakes
and cook them in the chamber pots. In Anhui province there were 1,289
documented cases of cannibalism from 1959-1961. (Shusheng Yin, “The Original
Record of Special Cases in Anhui Province,” Yanhuang Chunqiu 10(2009): 62-63)
Wang Guanqun, head of the
PSB of Yingshang County gave detailed account of 49 cannibalism cases. (Guanqun
Wang, “The Special Cases I know in Yingshang County, Yanhuang Chunqiu 8(2013):
22-23.
Gansu Province General
Office of the Communist Party Committee recorded 45 cases of cannibalism in
Linxia, a city south of the capital city Lanzhou such as digging out corpses
and boiling them, eating children after death, killing brother and eating him,
chasing strangers in the street with scythe, and carving out bottoms and calves
of the deceased.
Faced with massive cases
of cannibalism, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee wrote a self-critical
report that mentioned widespread starvation and cannibalism, admitting to 70
cases in Shandong Province between 1958-1960. In Laiyang County (1961) two men
were found guilty of disinterring the recently buried, boiling the flesh, and
selling it as beef for 5 Yuan per pound. They admitted to getting 15 pounds of
flesh per corpse and that there were many on the black market doing the same
thing.
Sichuan Province experienced
most dead, 12 million people. In Xingjing County, 53 percent of the population
died of starvation. Many witnesses testified about case after case of
cannibalism. One individual, Yang Guoli was executed by firing squad for having
killed children by luring them with buns and then boiling them for food.
Writer Zheng Yi detailed
cases of cannibalism in Guangxi province in his book, Scarlet Memorial (1993).
During the Cultural Revolution, “in some high schools, students killed their
principals and then cooked and ate the bodies to celebrate a triumph over ‘counter-revolutionaries.’”
Zheng found a document, “Significant
Events During the Cultural Revolution in Wuxuan County” which details that 75
people were killed and then their hearts and livers were extracted and
eaten. The cannibals received minor
punishments such as expulsion from the party (91 members), suspension (39
non-party members) from administrative positions, demotion, or salary
reduction. Nobody was criminally prosecuted.
The Laogai Research
Foundation concluded in its 81 page report drawn from official records and published
in October 2013, “Cannibalism in Communist China,” that the gruesome,
widespread, and unspeakable acts of cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution
were “motivated not by hunger nor by psychopathic illness but by an eagerness
to prove one’s loyalty to the Party and Mao.”
The report explains why
the Chinese Communist Party continues to “conceal historical records, distort
facts, and suppress the spread of relevant information.” Allowing this
information to go public would “impugn Mao Zedong’s legacy and threaten the
very legitimacy and stability of the current regime.” The communist party calls
the famine caused by government policy and left-wing ideology “the three years
of natural disasters,” misrepresenting cannibalism as “cases of political
deconstruction” and “special cases.”
The two manufactured
disasters, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, destroyed basic
moral principles of humanity in Chinese society, causing many cannibalism cases
within families – “fathers ate sons, brothers ate sisters, and husbands ate
wives.” They believe that more cases will come to light and more documents will
be discovered when the Communist Party will “fail.”
Man’s inhumanity to man is
hard to fathom, especially when it is driven by blind ideological hatred in
service to tyranny.
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