(d) The reported perpetration of acts of mutilation and cannibalism in the Mambasa region

Verano believes that some parts of the victim may have been eaten as well in ritual cannibalism.

It was a period marked by extreme levels of criminal activity, disease and mass death, infanticide, and cannibalism.

During the Great Leap Forward, cases of cannibalism also occurred in the parts of China that were severely affected by famine.