Thousands more dogs face clubbing
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We
have a Chinese anti-rabies culling of dogs - vaccinated pets
included - on an unprecedented scale.
It obviously eludes the responsible policy makers that only human
neglect and incompetence caused the problem.
Why is human failure revenged on innocent animals? We cannot
fathom the drive for such utterly inhuman behaviour.
Although we are aware of the fact that footage and images of the
atrocities are horrific and depressing, we keep them accessible as
they evoke the action to stop this large scale animal cruelty in
China.
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A second Chinese city is planning a mass dog slaughter to contain a
rabies outbreak, state media said, days after a similar cull of
50,000 dogs prompted outrage and criticism.
Officials in the eastern city of Jining said they would kill all
dogs within three miles of areas where rabies was found, the
official Xinhua News Agency said.
The measure came in response to the deaths of 16 people from rabies
in Jining in the past eight months, Xinhua said.
It didn't say how many animals would be killed, but said the city
had about 500,000 dogs. Rabies cases are on the rise in China, with
more than 2,000 people dying from the disease each year.
Only three per cent of the country's dogs are vaccinated against
rabies.
The slaughter in Jining, in Shandong province, comes just days
after the killings of a reported 50,000 dogs in a week-long
crackdown in Mouding county in southwestern China's Yunnan
province, launched after three people died of rabies. Thousands
were beaten to death with clubs.
The earlier massacre sparked unusually pointed criticism in state
media. "I think this is completely insane,'' Zhang Luping, founder
of the Beijing Human and Animal Environmental Education Centre,
said.
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Hi
everyone,
I have started sending out an alert about the dog massacre in
China, hoping everyone will at least write a letter of protest to
the Chinese authorities.
Although we feel paralyzed by such savage acts, we simply cannot
stand by quietly. Let's at least send them a
letter. Scroll down to find a letter sample. Please
feel free to edit as you please, or write your own.
Let's bombard them with emails, faxes, demos, whatever you can
do. What we cannot do is stand by as it happens before our
eyes.
www.antifursociety.org
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ALERT: BRUTAL DOG CULLING IN CHINA
The rabies outbreak in China could have been prevented by
anti-rabies vaccination program which I am sure would have been
provided by animal groups throughout the world if asked, not to
mention help from the World Health Organization. More than
500,000 dogs may end up brutally killed in China. Please
don't let man's best friend be brutally killed without one word of
support. Write a letter today! Scroll down
to find out what is happening.
PORTUGUESE: A epidemia da doenca rabica na China
poderia ter sido evitada com um programa de vacinacao, o qual com
certeza poderia ter recebido ajuda de grupos animais mundo afora,
caso a China houvesse pedido, isso sem falar de ajudas da
Organização Mundial da Saude. Mais de 500 mil caes poderao ser
cruelmente mortos. Por favor não deixe o melhor amigo
do homem ser morto tao brutalmente sem uma palavra nossa.
Escreva uma carta hoje! Abaixo ha um modelo
pronto se preferir.
SPANISH: A epidemia de la rabia en China se
habría podido prevenir por vacunacion la cuál sin duda habría sido
proporcionado por los grupos animales a través del mundo si estuvo
pedido, no mencionar ayuda de la Organización Mundial de la
Salud. No deje por favor lo mejor amigo del hombre ser matado
brutal sin una palabra suya. ¡Escriba una carta
hoy! Enrolle abajo para encontrar una muestra de
carta.
Dog cull in China to fight rabies
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5233704.stm
Chinese county culls 50,000 dogs in crackdown on
rabies
www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1835329,00.html
Chinese county massacres 50,000 dogs in campaign against
rabies
www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-08-01-china-dogs_x.htm
Yunnan Dog Massacre, July 2006
www.animalsasia.org/index.php
China’s Culture of Cruelty
www.peta.org/feat-china.asp
Up to half million dogs may be brutally killed in
China
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060804/hl_afp/chinaanimalhealth
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People's
Congress of the People's Republic of China
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The People's Republic of China
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Guangxi Government:
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Chuxiong, Mouding County in the Province of Yunnan,
China
webmaster@ynnic.gov.cn
SOURCE URL:
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Governor of Yunnan Province, Xu Rongkai
Government office address: Wuhuashan, Kunming
ph: 0871-362 1773
SOURCE URL:
www.china.org.cn/english/features/ProvinceView/156484.htm
Press Division of Foreign Affairs Office of Yunnan Province
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International Press Center (IPC)
ph: (010) 6588-2585, 6588-2586; fax: (010) 6588-2594
email:
ipc@fmprc.gov.cn
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LETTERS TO CHINESE AUTHORITIES & NEWSPAPERS:
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Dear sir/madam,
I understand that the stray dog population is a cause for concern,
and it does pose a threat of rabies. But countries all over the
planet face this problem and yet they are successfully
dealing with the situation without employing men to beat dogs to
death.
China needs a viable rabies vaccination program, as well as one
minimum of consideration for its citizens as family members watch
in horror the brutality used to kill their pets.
Apart from the ongoing issue of dogs and cats being brutally killed
for fur, China has a human and animal health problem which could
have easily been brought under control if China did not try to hide
it from the world which is eager to help.
Spay and neuter programs where the animals are returned to the
streets are a humane and efficient solution. If you find it
dishonorable to ask for help from other countries or even animal
groups to help you deal with such a situation, do you find it more
honorable that the world thinks of China as a country of
savages? This is precisely how the world see you now,
and however insignificant you may think a boycott of Chinese
products is at the moment, soon it will become greater than what
you expect as groups continue to ally themselves against China and
Chinese products.
You can no longer commit such massacres and pretend to the world
that nothing happened! Your country's treatment of its
animals is attracting as much attention in the West as its record
on human rights.
Your name
City, Country
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Letter 2:
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.
Your name
City, Country
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