Taipei News: Taiwan military routinely abuse dogs for pleasure

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Please help Vicki Lynn Ho with this terrible situation in Taiwan?

 

 

 

 

 

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> " Kim Bartlett, publisher, ANIMAL PEOPLE. " <anpeople

>Re: Taiwan military routinly abuse dogs for pleasure

>Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:04:42 -0700

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>Hi Kim, I know you have many articles want to publish. Please take a look at

>these dogs from military in Taiwan. I can no longer

>sit silently and not get involve.

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>I plan to ask IDA or Peta to deliver the sample letter in every Taipei

>Economic and Cultural Center in United States, I am using the same strategy

>like I used on the Animal Protection Law in Taiwan. It was very effective, I

>know it is going to take a long time before the situation can be improved,

>but at least it can start now by going after the military. I like to get

>your input and help if possible.

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>Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

>

>Vicky Lynn

>Asians For Humans, Animals & Nature

 

 

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>Taiwan military routinly abuse dogs for pleasure

>Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:09:40 -0700

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>Hi Kim, I know you are in China right now. Thanks for all you who

>are helping the animals in China. I hope you also are having a nice

>trip. Can you help by posting this translated Taiwan article for

>AHAN please.

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>Our website has pictures of the Chief of the Navy and Defence. If

>people use our website sample letter will be more effective. I also

>plan to send people from different state to deliver the letter to

>the local Taipei Economic Center in person. Hope they will take this

>seriously.

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>If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

>

>Vicky Lynn

>Asians For Humans, Animals & Nature

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7/29/03 Taiwan Chinese article

( HYPERLINK

" http://archive.udn.com/2003/7/29/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT2/1473921.shtml "

http://archive.udn.com/2003/7/29/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT2/1473921.shtml

 

Reported by Bing-Yu Chiu of Taipei News, translated by Joey Lau

 

It is a normal sight in Wu-Chu, Taiwan that soldiers capturing stray

dogs and tie them up to punch as sandbags; covering the dogs' heads

with plastic bags and set the bags on fire, watching the bags shrink

as the chemical burn and stick onto the dogsí faces, entertaining

themselves laughing at the whining and crying and screaming dogs.

 

Many newer soldiers in Wu-Chuóan island distanced from the

main-island, used only for military purposes cannot tolerate the

cruelty of their fellow soldiers and rankers, so they sneaked out

anonymous reports out of the site to the International Care

Association of Taiwanese Stray Dogs. Their courage is to be honored,

for dog-abuse has become a tradition in Wu-Qiu and the ones who

report such abuse would be considered trader and punished by their

rankers; therefore, no photographic evidence can be obtained.

 

International Care Association of Taiwanese Stray Dogs wrote the

Department of Agriculture and the Department of Defense to urge them

to stop dog abuse in Wu-Chu, for the reports show that dog-abuse

dramatically increased in both number and cruelty in the past six

months.

 

Mrs. Dung, an elderly rescue worker set up a website for Wu-Chu

soldiers to report the dog abuse of their fellow soldiers, stated

that according to such reports, most soldiers in Wu-Qiu not only

batter stray dogs of different sizes, they torture the dogs to an

unimaginable degree of cruelty.

 

For example, it is made a habit for most soldiers to tie the front

legs of dogs to the training bar, use the dogs as sandbags to punch

to train their arm-strength. Another soldier reported seeing an

officer swinging a 3 or 4-month-old pup into the air, so he asked the

officer, wouldn't you kill the pup doing this? The officer answered,

" no way, it is not this simple if you want to kill it. "

 

The worst of all, some soldiers tie plastic bags to the dogs' heads,

light the bags on fire, so the plastic melt and chemical shrink and

stick onto the dogsí fur and skin. The pain and shock made the poor

dogs run all over the place, screaming in pain, while soldiers laugh

at them and enjoy this " official evening entertainment. "

 

The latest of these reports stated that there is a notice in Wu-Chu

that " Someone who out ranks everyone in the military site " ordered

the soldiers to fix to the stray dogs over populating problem in

Wu-Qiu, and the officially decided solution is to " Bury alive the big

ones, make soup out of the small ones. "

 

What you can do to help: Please visit HYPERLINK

" http://www.ahan.org " www.ahan.org

Click on the Taiwan Protest

then click on sample letter, paste and email to Chief Commander of

Navy, Tai-Sun Shu

( HYPERLINK " cmc " cmc ) and Chief of

Ministry of National Defense, Yao-Ming Tong ( HYPERLINK

" mnd " mnd ), please ask your friend to

do the same.

 

 

 

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Something to think about: In their book Shadows of Forgotten

Ancestors, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan tell of actual laboratory

experiments in which monkeys were forced to choose between

electroshocking other monkeys and doing without food themselves.

Almost all of the monkeys went hungry for up to two weeks rather than

shock others. " These macaques -- who have never gone to Sunday

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moral grounding and their resistance to evil....If the situation were

reversed, and captive humans were offered the same deal by macaque

scientists, would we do as well? "