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A set of grisly photographs were originally circulated online in August 2009, typically accompanied by text claiming they pictured modern day cannibals in an Asian country (e.g., China, Indonesia, Thailand) gleefully carving up and consuming the body of a dark-skinned man: The photographs were real, and the lack of explanatory context made it easy for viewers to assume they did depict a flesh-eating ceremony, but these images actually captured a very different type of event. As a representative from the Royal Thai Embassy explained in response to an inquiry about these photographs, what the images show taking place is a form of Buddhist funereal rites:
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