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Cambodian cannibals released
A public prosecutor in Cambodia says two men accused of eating human body parts, washed down with a bottle of wine, have been released by a provincial court because there was no law against cannibalism.
The two men, both crematorium workers, were arrested last week for eating fingers and toes of a body they were cremating.
Public prosecutor Nhou Thol has told the Reuters news agency that he'd ordered police to release them on Friday because there was no law to charge them with.
Police in Banteay Meanchey province, 220 kilometres northwest of the capital Phnom Penh, were alerted to the case by villagers, who said the men often ate human parts after relatives of deceased had left the crematorium.
Eating human parts was common during the rule of the Khmer Route in the late 1970s, when ane estimated 1.7 million people died from torture, overwork, disease, execution and widespread famine.
04/05/2002 20:00:54 | ABC Radio Australia News
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