独一无二, 无尽的爱

Recently, the local authorities in a couple of regions decided to have dogs killed because of a high number of dogs biting people or some suspected cases of rabies. But the way they did it was just plain barbarious. The Chinese net community have debated heatedly on forums about these killings but since it’s in Chinese, I’ve not included them (plus I forgot the link). But I’m including an article I saw on a website.

CHINA: “WE DECIDED TO KILL THE DOGS”

“We decided to kill the dogs,” Li Haibo, spokesman of the Mouding county government said.

And so they did.

On Saturday, a woman was walking her dog - a small white animal she’d had for a long time - in a Yunnan Province alley.

Several men approached, talked her into handing them the leash and then beat the dog to death as the owner looked on in horror.

The killing, reports the Shanghai Daily, was only a small part of a campaign by Mouding County government officials to slaughter 50,000 canines between July 25 and Sunday, local media reported. The campaign was touched off by reports that at least three people had died recently in the county from rabies and many others had been bitten.

The Shanghai paper wrote of the slaughter:

Witnesses indicated the slaughter was often carried with the sort of dramatic elements found in a grade-B horror film.

Around midnight, shadows would flash along the walls of homes as men carrying clubs made noises to set the village dogs barking. Homing in on the sounds, the men would find their quarries, and the barks would be replaced by shrill yelps as the animals were dispatched.

Only military dogs guarding an ammunition storehouse and police dogs were allowed to survive.

Authorities first encouraged dog owners to kill their own pets, offering a 5 yuan incentive (62 US cents), and then sent in the task force to finish those that escaped the first-round slaughter.

The midnight raids were carried out by the task force officers.