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Veterans Claims Help 
I saw a lot of body parts for sale in Laos too. In the dlats as they were known, they sold monkey parts that look very human. Monkey ball soup was a delicacy. In Vietnam, dogs and dog parts were too. In Thailand and Laos, dogs were the lowest form of life next to lizands and snakes. One didn’t kill them because they were doing Buddha’s penance. I never heard of any cannibalism anywhere over two years back to back and learned how to speak Meo or Hmong semi-fluently. If it was happening there, I would have heard of it. I lived in the “outback” almost the whole time I was there and ate what was available on the local economy. No humans, sorry. Any meat had to be eaten within 36 hours of slaying or it would rot or get fly blown.
The Koreans (ROK) told him that they were human body parts and that they appeared to be human. He would NEVER bring this stressor up in a claim however, because they would claim he was a crack-pot–which he isn’t. But I agree that monkey meat is a plausible explanation.lacking solid anthropological studies that might suggest the other awful possibility.
In Cambodia, there are some accounts (Google books) but I don’t know what anthropologists’ literature shows about the Vietnamese.
. The problem of PTSD will increase because you can only keep a lid on certain horrific memories for so long. Awful topic: Cannibalism in war-time SE Asia. Did you, or any of your readers, encounter signs of cannibalism in the hamlets and markets or elsewhere. Or hear of such things from sane witnesses. My DH saw human body parts for sale in Vietnam and it haunts him. Who wants to remember that when you’re trying to sleep? I put the keyword “cannibalism” in the BCA search box and only came up with one case–in Korea.
“The Veteran recounted several in-service stressors while serving near the Korean DMZ. He related encountering small arms fire from the North Koreans and witnessing cannibalism by the local population. Mental status examination showed no impairment in thought process or communication.” http://www.va.gov/vetapp11/Files1/1108383.txt
The Board didn’t deal with this particular stressor other than to note that the Veteran was communicating clearly. 20th century Cannibalism–it sounds incredible. When people are trying to survive, they’ll do most anything.