One of the most terrible cases of sadistic killing of dogs has surfaced in Ukraine in the form of a 19-year-old guy who is hunting stray dogs to capture and kill them by putting them through most brutal torture. The killer named Alexey Vedulu is said to have killed over 100 dogs and puppies by various torture-filled methods. He is still at large and doesn’t care about law, which in his part of the world is too loose to scare him into sparing dogs.
Alexey Vedulu started posting photos and videos of his victim dogs on the Internet in October 2011, and attracted attention of animal rights activist. However, his story has not been covered by any major media source. According to authorities in his city of residence Kiev, Vedulu was injured by some stray dog in his childhood. Since then he has been obsessed with revenge on dogs and is now a compulsive dog killer. He plans new methods of torture-killing dogs by discussing with friends. Killing helpless dogs is his cruel obsession.
A petition has been created to get Vedulu arrested and prosecuted for brutal, gratuitous killings of dogs. The petition urges the Ukrainian President to take notice of Vedulu’s crimes and order his arrest before he can spell more innocent blood.
Here's an idea :
ReplyDeleteIt's time someone started a new terror network. Animal welfare vigilantism. i don't mean ALF sort of thing. I mean an al-Qaeda type movement, rather than an organisation, based around localised cells all over the world. If people are reported in the papers of torturing and killing animals, they are taken out. After a few hundred such killings, these people would start getting the message: they may not be accountable to the law which doesn't recognise animals as having the same basic rights as ourselves (the law can't since we kill and eat animals!) but they will be accountable to the vigilantes. Sounds crazy? Maybe. But vigilantism sets in where the law does not provide a solution. It's inevitable. You can't fight violence with peace if you are not dealing with a rational and accountable opponent.
No, don't worry, I won't start it! I am enmeshed in the usual spider's web of social obligations as most other people. But there are plenty of people in this world who care about animal cruelty too, and their footprint is light on the ground. To them I say : if you can, go forth and kill.
For the sake of the hysterical, consider this passage an attempt at fiction.]
I certainly don't think it's a good idea. It may have appeal for a Hollywood experiment (hysterical one, as you say), but in real life, it'll amount to terrorism. We just need to save animals as well as people from killings.
ReplyDeleteFair enough. I understand your feelings. It's a very difficult question to which I think there are no easy answers. No-one really wants more violence. But let me ask you this : how would we who wants humanity towards animals actually do something about this kind of thing? Who was there when those puppies were being tortured to death? No-one. Not you and not me and not the people around the perpetrator who knew what he was doing because he made little attempt to conceal it. And why not? Because unlike in the case of a human being, an animal life has no real value under law. Since we kill them and process them and put them all squashed together in cramped spaces and eat them anyway, their real status is the status of a product. This happens because we are the nine billion strong thug army at the top of the food chain. but of this devilish super-race (which is what we would look like to animals if they assess us in this way) some of us agree that it is wrong to treat animals as though their unnecessary pain and suffering inflicted deliberately by us is acceptable, or in any case, it is enough to say, it's a bad thing and then walk on. Is it really enough simply to throw up our hands in horror and say, how awful, and why don't they put him in jail for twenty years (which they won't?) The fact is, no-one in history ever achieved anything without fighting for it. Asking for it does no good. They ignore you. All revolutionaries know that, from Spartacus to the people dying on the streets of Cairo today. With so much abuse of human rights going on the world, who is going to really do something for animals?
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