EyePress, via Associated Press
In an antirabies program in Luoping, China, a dog was clubbed to death and thrown into a collection truck.
Posted on 08/10/2006 6:02:21 PM PDT by neverdem
SHANGHAI, Aug. 9 — It was late last month, the boy said, his voice still tinged with emotion, when he and his father were forced to march their two German shepherds to a public square and hang them from a tree.
The boy, Xia Shaoli, was not alone in his pain. Officials in Mouding County in southwestern Yunnan Province had ordered the mass extermination of dogs, pets as well as strays, after three people died in a rabies outbreak. And as a crowd gathered around a large tree in the village of Xiajiashan, owners complied one after another with commands to string their dogs up.
According to official figures, 54,429 dogs were killed during the Yunnan campaign. Reports in the Chinese news media say that some people out walking their dogs had the animals seized by gangs of vigilantes, who clubbed the dogs to death on the spot.
The events in Yunnan have been quickly followed by rabies scares in other parts of China. On Wednesday, the Chinese news media reported the killings of 280 dogs in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai, and 13 in the city of Fuzhou in southern Fujian Province.
Earlier this week, a cluster of 16 villages in the southwestern part of Shandong Province declared a rabies alert, and county officials have drafted a dog extermination plan that would call for the killing of any dog found within a...
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Some drew comparisons with China’s human rights situation. “We don’t have human rights, let alone dog rights,” wrote a commentator going by the name of Kui Kui Xiang Ri, on the Tianya forum. “I’ve seen too much live abuse, let alone abuse of dogs. Anyway, it’s the local emperors who have their say, and we ordinary folks are not much different from dogs in their eyes.”
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EyePress, via Associated Press
In an antirabies program in Luoping, China, a dog was clubbed to death and thrown into a collection truck.
Ping
Just the local restaurant supply stocking up the daily deliveries ---- a little WOK for the dog ----
Sign translation: "BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!"
That is just about as barbaric as it gets.
That's what I thought, but they chucked it into chat.
actually, the red placard in Chinese on that front of that truck says (top row) "City Management Division" and (bottom row) "Propaganda Car"
Namaste!
DOMO!
Shi Shi?
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