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Zimbabwe: Outcry as Chinese Engineers Eat Dogs

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Original Post Date: 2010-08-02 Time: 22:00:01  Posted By: News Poster

By Nqaba Matshazi

Dog eating Chinese engineers have caused an uproar in Matabeleland South where they are installing transmitters.

The behaviour of the Chinese who have a penchant for dog meat has unsettled villagers who are now jealously protecting their animals which should naturally guard them.

Matabeleland South police spokesman, Tafanana Dzirutwe confirmed that police had arrested two Chinese nationals after evidence was found that they were slaughtering dogs at their makeshift camp.

But he said the two were warned and released because Zimbabwe does not have laws regulating how people can slaughter dogs.

Concerns about the eating habits of the Chinese were raised after dogs began to disappear in the area.

The village headman warned his subjects to be careful about their dogs’ movements.

Some of the dogs did not just go missing. The Chinese workers offered cash for the dogs, considered a delicacy by the Orientals.

Local workers claimed they had seen the Chinese buying the dogs for as little as US$10 each before brutally killing them.

The dogs are reportedly tied with wires around their necks and hung from trees so that they defecate, before being struck with iron bars on their heads.

The situation caught the attention of a Harare-based animal rights campaign group, Veterinarians for Animal Welfare Zimbabwe (VAWZ), who together with the Bulawayo chapter of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), travelled to West Nicholson outside Gwanda town in Matabeleland South to investigate.

VAWZ spokesperson, Meryl Harrison said villagers had witnessed the killings, but were reluctant to talk.

The headman then accompanied them to the top of a kopje, where they found two Chinese men, camped next to a transmitter.

“On investigation inspectors found the wire in a tree, a pool of dried blood underneath the tree, several pieces of dried dog meat hanging up and, some distance away, a dog’s paw and tail,” she said.

Harrison said a fourth dog was to be killed the following day. A report was made to the police, leading to the arrest of the Chinese, though another one had since relocated to Mutare.

The Chinese were due to appear in court last Monday, charged under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

However, they have since been released, because the police claim that “Zimbabwe does not have legislation stating how one should kill a dog”.

A livid Harrison says the Chinese should have been charged under sections 3(i)(d) that criminalises any action that “causes any unnecessary suffering and 3 (i)(g) which deals with a person who “cruelly causes or permits any animal to be tied up or confined”.

“We cannot believe that the perpetrators of such appalling cruelty to three innocent animals are only given a warning, when the legislation is provided for in Zimbabwe’s Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act,” she said.

Original Source: Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)
Original date published: 31 July 2010

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