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AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED 29 people accused of being part of a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea’s jungle interior and charged them with the murders of seven suspected witch doctors, police said Friday.
Madang Police Commander Anthony Wagambie confirmed a report in The National newspaper that said the cult members allegedly ate their victims’ brains raw and made soup from their penises.
“They don’t think they’ve done anything wrong; they admit what they’ve done openly,” Wagambie told The Associated Press by telephone.
He said the killers believed that their victims practiced “sanguma,” or sorcery, and that they had been extorting money as well as demanding sex from poor villagers for their supernatural services.
Supernatural powers
By eating witch doctors’ organs, the cult members believed they would attain supernatural powers and literally become bullet-proof, he said.
“It’s prevalent cult activity,” Wagambie said. He said he believes there could be between 700 and 1,000 cult members in several villages in Papua New Guinea’s remote northeast interior. All of them might have eaten human flesh, he said.
According to the report in The National, which is published in Papua New Guinea, 28 men and women appeared in a Madang court on Tuesday. Wagambie said they were charged with willful murder.
It was not clear what happened to the 29th suspect. Murder is punishable by death in Papua New Guinea, a poor South Pacific island nation.
Cannibalism allegations
Wagambie said the suspects were not required to plea to the murder charges and were being held in custody.
Police will gather more witness statements before pressing charges related to the cannibalism allegations, he said.
Cannibalism was part of traditional culture in Papua New Guinea, where human flesh was known as “long pig,” and survived in isolated pockets into the latter part of the 20th century while the country was under Australian colonial rule.
Wagambie, 36, said he had never heard of a previous case of cannibalism in his lifetime.
He expected police would make around 100 arrests over the weekend for cult-related crimes.
Four of the seven victims were murdered last week, Wagambie said, adding that no remains had been recovered.
“They’re probably all eaten up,” he said.
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This is so funny. The natives have been eating each other for thousands of years…and now their shocked?
I ate his penis with some batchelors beans and a flagon of cider… Sssssss
I ate his penis with some fava beans and a dry chianti sssssssss
Most popular dinner there is beings on toast;)
I wonder what we taste like? Only one way to find out I suppose!
Al be on the 6-1 news later ;-)
Don’t forget to eat your bath salts
Chicken
Long pig soup yum yum
I like pygmys but I couldn’t eat a whole one
These guys tribal belief is that eating the penises of witch doctors will make them bullet proof. Note to Christians when I call your beliefs delusional you dont get to call out charges of arrogance etc. Without the scientific method making up ridiculous bs for comfort food is what every human society does.
So what are you saying Del
Flashes of Bishop Brennan sending Ted to a place like this!
You have got to hand it to them as long as they dont lose the head , keep abreast of things and be prepared to stand tough on the foot of these charges they should be o.k,
oh god. a relative is moving there this week to work for two years. I won’t be showing her this article:)
Unless its the mother-in-law…..?
Whats your name? Mr Om. First name omimominom.
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