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Titolo: [REPOST] La FESTA DELL'UNITA'

Gli articoli che accludo di seguito li avevo gia' postati ma, dato che
la Festa dell'Unita' sta per cominciare, e' bene ricordare quali
siano i gusti gastronomici dei comunisti e delle culture dei paesi
d'origine dell'immigrazione.
Forse la determinazione con la quale la sinistra sostiene l'immigrazione
e' spiegabile con la solidarieta' che i comunisti provano
verso i loro colleghi terzomondisti cannibali...
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Famine-struck N Koreans 'eating children' 
By Mark Nicol
(Filed: 08/06/2003) 
Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following another poor 
harvest and a big cut in international food aid, according to 
refugees who have fled the stricken country.
Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that children have 
been killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for food. 
Requests by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be 
allowed access to "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be 
traded, have been turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security 
reasons".
Anyone caught selling human meat faces execution, but in a report 
compiled by the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund (NKRAF), one 
refugee said: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats 
for sale. People know where they came from, but they don't talk 
about it."
The NKRAF, an aid body set up in China five years ago which helps 
to smuggle food and medicines into parts of North Korea off-limits 
to WFP officials, interviewed 200 refugees for the report.
"If a funeral takes place during the day and the burial is 
performed that evening, the grave may be dug open and the body 
stolen before morning," said one refugee.
Another witness, named only as Lee, 54, said he feared that his 
missing grandsons, aged eight and 11, had been killed for food. As 
he searched widely for them, they boys' friends said they had 
vanished near a market.
Mr Lee said police who raided a nearby restaurant found body parts. 
The business's owners were shot.
Gerald Bourke, the WFP's representative in Beijing, said it was 
difficult for his organisation to substantiate the reports of 
cannibalism as they were unable to get to the markets. "As in any 
desperately poor country, it is something we might stumble on," he 
said. "It's not just a problem for us, but also our donors." Because 
of the food shortages, many people were having to survive on nine 
ounces of rations a day - less than half the recommended minimum 
daily intake.
North Korea's ability to feed itself has been hit by floods, 
deforestation and lack of farm fertilisers and equipment.
The WFP says Japan provided 500,000 tons of food aid in 2001, 
making it the biggest donor, but sent nothing last year. Food aid 
from America has been cut from 340,000 tons in 2001 to 40,000 tons 
so far this year. Washington has pledged to send a further 60,000 
tons if Pyongyang lifts restrictions on the operations of agencies 
such as the WFP.
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.
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Taylor 'turns back to cannibalism'
By Tim Butcher in Monrovia
(Filed: 23/06/2003) 
With rebels at the gates of his capital, Liberia's President 
Charles Taylor is believed by many of his subjects to be using human 
sacrifice and cannibalism to cling to power.
Witchcraft and magic play a strong social role in the troubled west 
African country and accusations of cannibalism have surrounded 
Taylor since he swept to power at the head of a rebel army in the 
early 1990s.
His associates claimed he drank the blood of captured prisoners 
during the bush war and, besieged in Monrovia by two rival rebel 
groups, Mr Taylor is widely believed to have once again turned to 
the dark arts to maintain his position.
"Right now he is surrounding himself with the strongest zoes [witch 
doctors] and using the strongest ju ju to keep power," said a 
Monrovian expert on magic too scared to have his name published.
"There is no way you can be at his level and not do rituals. These 
guys deal in blood."
Taylor is undoubtedly determined to remain in office, despite being 
weakened by United Nations sanctions and international restrictions 
on the trade in blood diamonds that he has relied on.
With rebels from the Liberians United for Reconciliation and 
Democracy - allegedly armed by America - and the Movement for 
Democracy in Liberia both advancing on the capital, a ceasefire was 
agreed under which Taylor was to step down within 30 days.
But he later said he would not go before the end of his mandate in 
January and yesterday his spokesman said rebel forces had attacked 
north and south of Monrovia.
He is fast approaching a situation where he will need all the help 
he can get. While western politicians may metaphorically have 
skeletons in their cupboard, in Liberia there is nothing 
metaphorical about it. 
One of Taylor's allies kept the bones of a murdered rival in a desk 
drawer in his office. Rumours of politicians using ritual murder to 
bolster their positions have proved horribly true with several 
political leaders executed in the 1970s and 1980s after being 
convicted of human sacrifice.
Spiritual figures including zoes, "heart men" - who perform rituals 
- and devils play a key role in Liberia through the workings of the 
Poro societies, men-only spiritual groups which rely on magic, 
charms and talking with dead ancestors.
So important is it for Taylor to be highly regarded within Poro 
that he publicly uses the title Dakpannah, meaning Chief Zoe, a 
senior and respected figure in Poro.
Little is known about the secret workings of the Poro with members 
sworn to secrecy during the long and arduous initiation ceremonies.
To its detractors Poro is nothing but evil, using terror and 
ignorance to control large parts of the population. Children's 
corpses are sometimes found with body parts removed to make charms. 
The genitals are often used and the lower lip is regarded to have 
particularly strong magic powers.
In Nimba county, on the border with Ivory Coast, Christian critics 
of Poro have tried to stop the continued abduction of schoolboys by 
Poro members before they are dragged off into the bush to be 
initiated into the society.
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.
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