Talk:Atrocities in the Congo Free State/Archive 2
Latest comment: 5 months ago by Gawaon in topic Cannibalism
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Cannibalism
Someone seemed to have made a rather strange part about cannibalism on this page, showing that supposedly "congo officials explicitly or implicitly handed people over to cannibals to be eaten" This cannot however be found on page 91 of Congo by van Reybrouck. It also does not mention that cannibalism although often reluctantly tolerated was punishable by death in the Force Publique. LouisBStevenson (talk) 19:27, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
- It's there, Van Reybrouck citing an archival source in chapter 2 about a punitive expedition: "The village chieftain Isekifusa was killed in his hut. Two of his wives were murdered at the same time. A child was cut in two. One of the women was then disemboweled.... Boeringa's people, who had come along with the sentries, ate the bodies. Then they killed ten men who had fled into the forest. When they left Bolima, they left a part of Lombutu's behind, chopped into pieces and mixed with banana and manioc, in plain sight, to frighten the villagers." [emphasis added]
- And a few paragraphs later: "in a number of cases, the atrocities truly knew no bounds. 'When I was still a child,' said Matuli, a fifteen-year-old female student at the Ikoko mission, 'the sentries shot at the people in my village because of the rubber. My father was murdered: they tied him to a tree and shot and killed him, and when the sentries untied him they gave him to their boys, who ate him....'" [emphasis added]
- I don't have access to a paginated edition at the moment, but that should be the place. Accounts about captives handed over are from Burrows/Canisius and the Casement Report, if I remember correctly. I'll recheck and add more sources soon. Gawaon (talk) 11:41, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
- I've readded the deleted sentence with additional references to some of the cited original sources (only those already listed in the article, to keep things simple). Gawaon (talk) 18:43, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Okay the Reybrouck reference mentions indigenous militias eating people, that we know. But its the officials handing over captives to be eaten. If you can find that in the Casement report, that would be handy, otherwise we are stating things based on sources that do not explicitly mention said statement/idea/fact. LouisBStevenson (talk) 20:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- And then I have to remove it LouisBStevenson (talk) 09:11, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
- Okay the Reybrouck reference mentions indigenous militias eating people, that we know. But its the officials handing over captives to be eaten. If you can find that in the Casement report, that would be handy, otherwise we are stating things based on sources that do not explicitly mention said statement/idea/fact. LouisBStevenson (talk) 20:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- I've readded the deleted sentence with additional references to some of the cited original sources (only those already listed in the article, to keep things simple). Gawaon (talk) 18:43, 20 November 2023 (UTC)