Guevara tied to cannibalism-interesting new British article

[Kyriakos]

It is true that in recent times much has been inferred in regards to the famous rebel's possible links to cannibalism. While it is at least tenuous to claim that Guevara in person has been proven to have practiced this heinous and anti-human activity, on the other hand that there are links between the two is not at all equally unheard of.

And now a new (2013) article on a major British newspaper reveals that at least in regards to Guevara fighting on the side of cannibals (or in their overall group) there is no contention anymore...

I hesitated in posting this article, since i guess there are still many here who are sympathetic towards Guevara, or the cause linked to Guevara by and large. Whereas the cause itself is quite suspicious too in my view, the sympathy is even less waranted.

Anyway, like i said i kept in mind the polarization this issue causes, and so i just had to hit a good balance between being general, and not being needlessly misleading...

You can read the article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Assad-s-troops-children-killed-airstrike.html

There are many articles on the cannibals in the same "cause", for example: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...nibal-says-he-will-stand-trial-if-assad-does/

 

[Traitorfish]

I never really understood why, of all the awful things happening in Syria at moment, the thing people chose to get excited about was the one thing that didn't involve anyone actually getting hurt. These people are killing each other, and our concern is whether they take a few bites out of the corpse afterwards? Those are some seriously skewed priorities.

 

[Kyriakos]

Oh come on Traitorfish, this is the Tavern. At least show a bit that you were initially prone to feel somewhat offended by the media presenting Guevara in such a light

I wonder what Argentinian media would make of these news

 

[Traitorfish]

Oh come on Traitorfish, this is the Tavern. At least show a bit that you were initially prone to feel somewhat offended by the media presenting Guevara in such a light

Do you mean as a hero, or as a cannibal? I don't have a side in this conflict, and I really can't see why I'd want one.

 

[Kyriakos]

Do you mean as a hero, or as a cannibal? I don't have a side in this conflict, and I really can't see why I'd want one.

That is no fun...

 

[timtofly]

Those two articles are about two different people.

If the plight of Syria is so bad that the only food is human flesh, that sounds about right for a war torn middle east country even in modern times.

Evil imaginations of the heart, do not come from bordom with a perfect world. It would seem to me that they come from artificial desperation that humans impose upon themselves. That it has come to both sides relishing the destruction of the other is not a good place to be at.

 

[Lord Baal]

I have never come across anything about Che Guevara being, or being associated with, a cannibal. Then I hovered over the links, and was disappointed that Che didn't eat Batista's face or something.

I don't trust the Daily Mail. They'd claim Guevara was a Nazi alien with wings who made a pact with Satan to let illegal immigrants steal Britain's entire yearly supply of tea if it got people to buy their inferior product.

 

[Ajidica]

I have never come across anything about Che Guevara being, or being associated with, a cannibal.

While reading the book on the Cold War Dachs reccomended (Global Cold War, Odd Arne Westad) the author mentions that in the Congo several of the small militant groups did participate in ritualistic cannibalism and that Che, or at very least the Cubans in general, were aware of such practices. This contributed to their withdrawal from the Congo and Che's dissolusionment with the Cold War in Africa. The way Westad mentioned it suggested that it was one of those 'interesting, but not particularly relevant' parts of the Cold War. (Also, it probably doesn't need to be said but just for completeness such actions occurred on all sides in the Congo War.)

 

[Kyriakos]

While reading the book on the Cold War Dachs reccomended (Global Cold War, Odd Arne Westad) the author mentions that in the Congo several of the small militant groups did participate in ritualistic cannibalism and that Che, or at very least the Cubans in general, were aware of such practices. This contributed to their withdrawal from the Congo and Che's dissolusionment with the Cold War in Africa.

Thanks for that One can learn new information even when originally planning to post a slightly covert remark against the one known as Guevara...

 

[Lord Baal]

While reading the book on the Cold War Dachs reccomended (Global Cold War, Odd Arne Westad) the author mentions that in the Congo several of the small militant groups did participate in ritualistic cannibalism and that Che, or at very least the Cubans in general, were aware of such practices. This contributed to their withdrawal from the Congo and Che's dissolusionment with the Cold War in Africa. The way Westad mentioned it suggested that it was one of those 'interesting, but not particularly relevant' parts of the Cold War. (Also, it probably doesn't need to be said but just for completeness such actions occurred on all sides in the Congo War.)

Interesting. I can't say I'm surprised; Africa has been a war-torn tribal hell-hole for the entirety of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and for large portions of all others.

 

[Renner]

Cannibalism is bad? waste not, want not I say.