[Action alert] China Viciously Massacres 54,000 Dogs in Rabies Scare

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http://fr.news./31072006/202/un-comte-de-chine-eradique-ses-chiens-pour\

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http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=4268052

 

Brasileiro :

http://noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/interna/0,,OI1085387-EI238,00.html

 

In Defense of Animals

http://ga0.org/campaign/ChinaDogCull

 

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Dear Sirs,

 

Like millions of others around the world, I am shocked and outraged that

officials in the county of Mouding brutally massacred more than 54,000

dogs over a five day period last week in an attempt to stem the spread

of rabies to humans.

 

These killings were carried out in almost unimaginably horrific ways.

Public Security Bureau task force officers stopped guardians who were

walking their dogs in cities and beat the animals to death with clubs

while their guardians looked on helpless. Sometimes, officers poisoned

the dogs, or killed them by hanging or electrocution. Under cover of

night, the officers raided the rural countryside, provoking dogs to bark

so they could find and bludgeon their canine victims to death. By

Sunday, July 30th, over 90% of the county's dogs were murdered on the

County Government's orders.

 

Public health authorities pronounced the massacre necessary to safeguard

the county's human population, dismissing vaccination plans as

inadequate. However, even if it had been the case that killing dogs was

the only way to protect people from rabies, the animals should have been

humanely euthanized, not beaten to a bloody pulp. The exceptionally

malicious and cruel attacks Public Security Bureau officers perpetrated

against China's dogs and their helpless guardians would be inexcusable

under any circumstances.

 

I am gravely concerned that other counties will follow Mouding's bad

example by committing atrocities in the name of public health. Please do

all in your power to ensure that no other county governments instigate

such cruel dog culls. Also please urge the central government to

initiate effective preventive measures against the spread of rabies

based on vaccination programs and public education.

 

Name

Address

Country

 

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Special tks to Linda and Pierre