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[5] “Cannibalism was not exceptional. In 1980, Xinhua reports went to Tongwei and were told by the party secretary of Longyang Commune, ‘During the three-year hardship, in my home village a woman in her twenties cooked and ate her own daughter. When her man came back from Xinjang and asked after his daughter, the other villagers covered up the matter, because many of them had also eaten human flesh. People were driven mad by hunger. They’d go out with a basket, and if they saw a corpse along the side of the road, they’d cut off any edible flesh to cook at home. This party secretary had come home from working on the Yintao Project to find that his entire family—his wife, younger sister, and three children—had all starved to death.”