ANARCHO-CANNIBALISM

During 1672, which the Dutch refer to as the "disaster year", prime minister Johan de Witt and his brother were attacked by members of The Hague's civic militia. The brothers were shot and then left to the mob; their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet. The mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy. Throughout it all, a remarkable discipline was maintain…