GUARDIAN: Police in Pakistan have arrested two men for allegedly digging up a newly buried corpse and eating its flesh in a curry.
The two brothers are said to have cut the legs from the body of a 24-year-old woman and cooked the flesh in a steel pot. Some of the gruesome dish had already been eaten when police raided the brothers’ home in a remote part of Punjab province.
A senior police officer, Malik Abdul Rehman, told the Guardian the brothers had been eating corpses for at least a year, but some local media reports alleged that they had been human flesh eaters for a decade.
Rehman said that the brothers, Muhammad Arif, 40, and Farman Ali, 37, seemed to have taken up cannibalism as an act of “revenge” after their mother died and their wives left them.
“It became an addiction for them,” Rehman claimed. They boiled the flesh first, then cooked it in a curry, he said.
Full article at the Guardian
What the f*ck?
THIS IS HORRIBLE!
HORRIBLE!
HORRIBLE!
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY NUT CASES IN THIS WORLD?
oh.my.god! How vile!
so wrong!
Damn, seriously?
I’m not sure if they should be shoved into prison or helped ._.
Mmm. Chicken Tikka Cadaver.
Blimey! Shockingly shocking! These don’t need a prison sentence.
All they need is some strong help. Still can’t understand this!
Unfortunately there are many horrible cases around tge world like this. And in Pakistan, well u can be sure the punishment will be severe. There is so much poverty and crime has risen. God help them all.
More like a Bury-ani!
horrible and terrifying
curry with red meat and worst : boiled
very bad taste indeed
surely the result of english colonialism
Well at least they weren’t murdering people I guess!
Disgusting. But morally what harm did they do? They didn’t kill anyone.
Blurgh…
ITs not only in Paksitan but actually Everywhere .. lyk in USA every second a women iz raped … lYk deZe kinda sorts things are not 0nly in Pakistan .. so .. Stop Judgin others first judge urslf and in a place u live…
that will teach me not to read this blog right after breakfast! :0
You have to wonder if these guys watch too many British and American films.
Prelude to ‘Soylent Green’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
‘Eat The Rich’ http://www.oddfilms.com/movies/cannibal/
“Rehman said that the brothers, Muhammad Arif, 40, and Farman Ali, 37, seemed to have taken up cannibalism as an act of “revenge” after their mother died and their wives left them.”
Kind of makes you wonder what happened to mom and the ex-wives.
AAAAAAAARGH! EEEEEEEEEEEW! There are just some people in the world who should be shot…..that is beyond disturbing!
My face is of utter disgust.
This is sickening. Why would anyone want to do that? And I wonder which one of them first suggested it and what the other one said?! I often wonder about that when you hear of couples who abuse poor children or animals for example. Who suggests these outrageous activities and why on earth does the other person go along with it? Revloting & Disturbing.
Well that’s just quite simply disgusting.
So who’s Nan did they put in the Nan bread?
I’ll get my coat…
Punjab :L
YAK! I guess these guys aren’t concerned about what diseases their meals may have died from. Fava beans and a nice Cianti, anyone? Geez, I can’t even eat whole fish, ’cause I don’t want to think about it being alive before…give me a nice, breaded filet, thank you very much. I hope the Mom and exes are far, far away from these two cantankerous cannibals!
Yum!
Don’t judge yourself as evil, or wrong, don’t judge others as evil or wrong. Your expectations might just come true.
Personally not my thing, I am so very lucky to not get my kicks from this. Not saying this is wrong … just a vegetarian diet is much better.
It’s slightly wrong … I have to judge a little, especially if I was emotionally involved. Forget I mentioned vegetarianism.
I told my eleven year old son about this story, and his reaction surprised me and gave me pause. He said, “They must have been really hungry, huh? Besides, in the future, it may be necessary to do that anyway.” I can understand cannibalism in extreme circumstanses…like the plane crash in the Andre mountains, where those who lived through the accident survived starvation by eating those who died in the wreckage. It’s easy to say that you would never under any circumstances do that, but extreme hunger is a powerful motivator. To eat another human just because you enjoy the texture and taste of the flesh, when other foodstuffs are readily available, is reprehensible to me.
I wonder if the brothers will be publishing a Curry Dishes CookBook any time soon.
Bon Appetit or bone appetite ?
What’s up with the gore post? I wasn’t expecting to read something in this blog that would haunt me for days
That curry must of been Ded hot
I think that they all depress bcoz their mother died and their wife left them. It’s better to eat a dog or snake rather the human.
To be honest, I don’t see how eating humans is any different morally to eating animals. I mean a life is a life, whether it’s an animals life or a humans life, and we don’t have the right to take either away. So glad I’m a vegetarian! Animals get slaughtered and their lives are prematurely snatched from them just to feed selfish humans’ stomachs, what these people were doing was wrong but at least they wernt murdering anyone.
Also even the idea of eat another animal just because you like the taste and texture of freshly slaughtered flesh even though there are alternatives that don’t harm anything makes me physically feel sick. I hate how people think eating humans is so wrong and yet they are happy to eat a poor innocent animal thats been slaughtered just so they can stuff it into their cakeholes. At least my stomach isn’t a graveyard for dead animals.
Ah, the misplaced moral superiority of a vegetarian. Roshni, can you really see no moral difference between eating a person or an animal?
The problem with portraying yourself as a beacon of morality is that you have to be perfect in every way. Are you a vegan or vegetarian? I used to be a veggie too (and, am embarrassed to say, I got all preachy about it too), but it dawned on me that I still consumed products that originated from animals, and upon realising that, and knowing that I could never be a vegan, I gave it up as an empty gesture.
If you want to be a veggie, knock yourself out – but if you feel the need to tell meat eaters that you are better than them, then you should look to understand your motives for your choice not to eat meat in a little more detail…
Roshni:
To be honest, I don’t see how eating animals is any different morally to eating plants. I mean a life is a life, whether it’s an animal’s life or a plant’s life — so why do you have the the right to take one away, but not the other? Plants get slaughtered and their lives are prematurely snatched from them just to feed selfish humans’ stomachs.
I hate how people think eating animals is so wrong and yet they are happy to eat a poor innocent plant that’s been slaughtered just so they can stuff it into their cakeholes.
Two can play at that game.
@Roshni: Well said Roshni.
@Berber Anna:
The point made here was how humans slaughter animals (which are living things that move, eat, reproduce, breathe, have feelings, can feel pain, hurt, hunger etc).
Now, let’s assume for a second here that plants have these characteristics too (which research shows they don’t, but lets humor you shall we?). Vegetarians do NOT kill plants to feed themselves, they take segments of the plants (i.e. fruits, veggies etc etc). You do not kill the entire plant to get the fruits out of it.
It’s just ridiculous seeing a few meat-eaters who stuff their faces with meat just cause they come up with a silly excuse that “vegetarians eat plants” anyways.
And, if you do think they are the same, then, you shouldn’t have any issues with the 2 dudes eating humans
@Berber Anna: Three can play the same game as well
@Mat:
First of all, there are quite a few vegans who do go out of their way to not use products that result in the killing of animals to manufacture them. Don’t assume that your lack of motivation to stop using these products justifies that every single vegan is the same.
Second, your argument that vegans should not be using these products is the same as a religious person using modern technology. If you believe in God, then stop using these modern-day technologies which have been created using science.
Ridiculous statement? Well, so was your argument..
@Ace
First of all, I was making a distinction between vegetarians and vegans – you appear to have missed that point entirely. My understanding of veganism is that vegans do not use/consume any product that is derived from animals – a very hard thing to achieve, and those that do have my respect for making such an effort because of their principals.
To me, vegetarianism is some sort of halfway house – and if you want to be be one, knock yourself out – just don’t expect meat eaters to sit there passively whilst they get moralised and lectured by someone who wears leather shoes, or drinks non-vegetarian wine, or whatever…
Is that clearer for you? In your haste to lecture me, you didn’t take the time to understand what I had actually written…
Ace: There are quite a few plants that are killed by harvesting them. Most types of root vegetables, spinach, lettuce and several other leafy greens, cereals (we use the seeds, but we take the entire crop to extract them). Nuts and seeds are baby trees. And unless you plant the seeds of the fruit you eat, you are destroying baby plants.
Plants eat (they absorb chemicals and sunlight), reproduce, breathe (CO2 plus oxygen in the daytime, oxygen during the night) and move (towards the sun, and in case of flesh eating plants, in order to catch animals). They don’t have a nervous system analogous to that of animals, but they can get ill when injured and need to expend energy to mend just as we do, so injury cannot be pleasant to them.
You mistake a different philosophy for thoughtlesness.
I firmly believe that the purpose of all life is to feed other life. Plants feed on the sun, animals feed on plants and on the animals that fed on plants.
I have no problem with taking a life if I find doing so necessary (to feed or protect myself or to prevent suffering in a sick or dying animal), but I don’t do so thoughtlessly (I remove insects and pests from my house rather than killing them). I value quality of life over quantity of life. I eat only organically reared meat or wild game, the few times a week that I do eat meat (as we are omnivores and should eat meat sparingly). I refuse to eat an animal that has been locked up in a cage all of its life, as that to me constitutes cruelty.
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My issue with the men eating human remains is twofold.
One, it’s a vector for disease, as any pathogen that can infect one human can infect another human that ingests the first (a problem that is less prevalent when eating other species).
Two, it is respectless towards the families of the deceased. Most human cultures value the idea of being able to visit the remains of their dead (as do elephants, for instance). If you remove and eat those remains, you will in effect harm the bereaved.
@Berber anna: I totally agree. I gave up vegetarianism for this reason. It is impossible to survive without consuming entities that once were alive. Plants, animals, fish: who is to say what kind of awareness a plant has? A lack of pain does not mean a lack of awareness. A very different kind of awareness, granted, but life is life. Even bacteria have an incredibly simple awareness IMHO.
When gathering crops, the whole plant often dies.
The objective for me is to minimise suffering. I eat organic meat, no beef (or not much), line caught fish, mutton from an older animal, etc. A messy hypocritical compromise. I am far from perfect. Who is?
HOWEVER: eating humans may be necessary in extremis, but should never be a lifestyle choice for many reasons, especially those you already presented.
Rob: I left two more replies that somehow didn’t make it through the moderation queue, in which I explained my philosophy. It’s similar to yours — organic meat or game, line caught fish, and in general another kind of protein (cheese or Quorn) for about half of my evening meals. I don’t mind death (quantity of life) as long as it’s not random killing for the sake of killing (I believe in killing for food, protection and in mercy), but I hate the idea of any kind of orgganism suffering (quality of life).
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Well said ace! You tell em!
@ Roshni and Ace
Well done on the mutual back-slapping!
Do you think it’s telling that you are happy to preach at people, but not so happy to engage them in debate?