Show bongo bongo j evidence of a recurrence of cannibalism in french equatorial africa has prompted the french colonial administration to launch a vigorous effort to wipe out that evil among the natives the government is imposing hard labor penalties on offenders using that punishment as a threat to break the hold of witch doctors who get tree free supplies of meat by promoting annual human sacrifice rituals one of the developments which spurred the drive to eliminate cannibalism sm was the discovery recently of a huge stack of human bones in a quarry a few miles from brazza vile french equatorial africa the bones evidently were the remains of cannibal feasts since all the marrow bones were carefully broken the fourth republic voted a new criminal code proclaiming among other things that trade in human flesh its sale or use is punishable by forced labor |