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Cases of missing people in Yunnan, China
The first article was published earlier, and the second has just come.
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Yunnan missing persons jump to 17
The number of missing people in Southwest China's Yunnan Province now stands at 17, reported the Shanghai-based newspaper Oriental Morning Post Monday.
According to the news report, the Ministry of Public Security several days ago sent some crime investigators in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.
Local police launched an investigation after media reports earlier this month detailing eight teenagers who have gone missing in recent years near Nanmen village in Jincheng township which is part of Kunming.
The newspaper's report has not been confirmed by local authorities. The Kunming public security bureau declined to provide any additional information about the newspaper report or their investigation.
"We will update the public as soon as the investigation is complete," an official from the bureau told the Global Times Monday.
The families of missing people say that during their hunt for their relatives, they discovered that 17 people have gone missing in Jincheng, with the eldest said to be around 80 years old, according to the newspaper.
"It's too early to draw any conclusion. Police will check the true number of the missing," an official from the publicity department of Jincheng township government who declined to be named, said in an interview with the Global Times Monday.
The Oriental Morning Post reported that although all the families claimed they had reported a loved one that had gone missing to local police, none could provide copies of the police report on their case.
The police announced on May 9 that Zhang Yongming, 56, had been arrested in connection with the disappearance of at least seven teenagers and the murder of one of them.
Han Yao, 19, who lived in a village near Nanmen, was found murdered and his telephone card, bank card and other cards were discovered at Zhang's home in Nanmen.
Zhang had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1978 for murder, but was released in 1997, said local police.
Local police confirmed that eight young men have been reported missing in the township since 2007, six of whom disappeared over the past 15 months.
Lü Enxiang, a lawyer from Beijing-based Chang'an Law Firm, told the Global Times Monday that local police would likely not have investigated the cases if the media had not reported it first.
"Local police should be blamed for neglecting their duties. Several people were missing in that area, but they neither put the cases on the record nor took measures to improve the security situation," he said.
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Chinese 'cannibal' detained in Yunnan province
Police in southwest China have detained a man suspected of murdering more than a dozen boys and...
Police in southwest China have detained a man suspected of murdering more than a dozen boys and young men, chopping up their bodies and selling the flesh to unsuspecting consumers, reports said Friday.
Police made the gruesome discovery during an investigation into the disappearances of male teenagers in Yunnan province in recent years, according to reports in Hong Kong and Chinese media.
Zhang Yongming, 56, was detained two weeks ago in his home village of Nanmen in Yunnan and is being investigated over the murder of a 19-year-old man in late April and the disappearance of several others, the Guangxi News website reported.
Police searching Zhang's home found the young man's cellphone, bank card and other evidence, according to the website, which said more than a dozen other teenagers had gone missing from the village over the years.
It said Zhang, a loner who never talked to his neighbours, had previously served almost 20 years in jail for murder and was known in the village as the "cannibal monster".
And it quoted residents as saying they had seen green plastic bags hanging from his home, with what appeared to be white bones protruding from the top.
Hong Kong newspaper The Standard said police discovered human eyeballs preserved inside wine bottles -- "like snake wine" -- and pieces of what appeared to be human flesh hanging up to dry when they entered Zhang's home.
Police feared that Zhang had fed human flesh to his three dogs, while selling other parts on the market, calling it "ostrich meat", according to The Standard.
Local police declined to comment when contacted by AFP, saying information would be made available "at an appropriate time", and almost all reports on the case were removed from Chinese websites as of Friday.
Online searches for the words "missing in Yunnan" were also blocked.
The official Xinhua news agency said Beijing had dispatched a team of experts to Yunnan to supervise the investigation into the missing teenagers, but did not refer to the gruesome details contained in other reports.
Families of the missing originally suspected they had been kidnapped and forced to work in illegal brick kilns, Xinhua said, adding two local police chiefs had been sacked and the government had urged a swift resolution to the case.
Internet users expressed dismay that officials had not tackled the case before now.
"Seventeen lives lost," wrote one on the Tencent news portal. "Can it really be that they don't care about the lives of ordinary people? Is it really the case that they only pay attention after the media break the case?"
Chinese media normally face few restrictions on reporting about non-political crimes, and it was not immediately clear why details of the Yunnan case were being censored.
Cannibalism is a particularly sensitive subject in China, where it was practised as a survival tactic during periods of mass starvation, for example in the wake of a failed industrialisation drive launched in the late 1950s.
Individual cases of cannibalism were also recorded during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, when it was carried out as a symbolic act against perceived enemies of the communist cause.
"Yunnan is a border province, and it's very conscious of its relative backwardness compared with other Chinese provinces," said Joseph Cheng, a China expert at City University of Hong Kong.
"It hurts the image of Yunnan province, and that's probably the motivation for the cover-up."
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This is disgusting and messed up. I cannot believe the Hannibal Lecture of asia EXISTS!!
