Zoo animals Starved to death and left to mummify

[pyrangello]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3478261/Horrifying-mummified-corpses-remains-dozens-animals-starved-death-world-s-worst-zoo-Gaza-Strip.html

Can somebody please help me understand why this happened and nobody asked for help for this zoo? I know the good people of the earth would have helped should there been a call and what about the rest of the animals left there? If people want to kill each other and live a life of despair and hopelessness then so be but can't something be done to evacuate the rest of these animals out of this zoo? Pictures say a thousand words, is this to be my perspective of the people in this region and what they are capable of? Where is the outrage from neighboring countries? where is the outrage of the people in the area? where is the outrage of the media? Is this what the children of the area have to see to expand there minds of a greater world out there. With some 2 million Palestinians living in Israel where is the pressure to assist? When Yassar Arafat passed away he was worth a reportedly 300 million dollars according to a news wire. Where did all the money go? WTF?

[regnak]

well I disagree the zoo in Afghanistan was worse were people ate the animals and soldiers took over the zoo
http://www.rawa.org/zoo2.htm


Kabul zoo presents ghastly spectacle

AFP, May 24, 2000




KABUL May 23 (AFP) - Kabul zoo, once a frontline in Afghanistan's factional fighting, has become a virtual torture chamber for the animals which survived the strife.

Weak and emaciated, the zoo's monkeys are constantly tormented by visitors who are allowed to shout at the animals and prod them with sticks in full view of guards who show little concern for their plight.

Quizzed about their indifference, the keepers say they have simply grown weary of telling visitors to stop torturing the animals.

A blind lion, a black bear, seven monkeys, 20 rabbits, five foxes, four wolves, two hawks, two falcons, three vultures, nine owls, a deer, a snake and several pigeons make up the zoo's depleted population.

Many animals were killed in fighting before the ruling Taliban routed rival groups from the Afghan capital in 1996.

The Taliban boast they brought security for the ordinary Afghan people. But with electricity, water and veterinary care in short supply, insecurity, hunger and neglect haunt the zoo animals.

"Once bullets and bombs made the zoo a hell for the animals, now they are exposed to constant abuse by visitors," said a guard.

Several animals have died after being beaten or fed narcotics by visitors.

"They recently hit one of the wolves on the head with a stick. It stopped eating first and then died after four days," said a keeper.

"A yellow bear went crazy after it ate stuff thrown into the cage and died."

The guards say Taliban soldiers from the countryside, who throng the zoo at the weekend, are particularly fond of baiting the animals.

"The Taliban say they are having fun and the animals are government property," one said.

Militia soldiers cut tree branches to poke the animals and leap on to their cages to scare them.

"It is impossible to control this situation of wantonness," admitted Mohammad Mehdi, the head of the zoo who has appealed to the authorities to provide armed guards to protect the animals.

One keeper said that the body of the wolf who died had been put on display for several days in an attempt to deter visitors from abusing the animals.

[East Sun]

Some humans make me totally sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sigma6]

Could we be missing a political message in there somewhere... and not just a superficial one... macabre...

[kirolak]

Words fail . . . . . .

[Ewan]

I guess the concept of 'You reap what you sow' was nowhere to be found in those books so generously supllied to the Afghan schools by NGO's or other alphabet agency

[Althena]

Who ever allowed this sickening event to transcur has a special place in hell.