In an open letter, Du Yufeng said that she couldn't sleep at night knowing that the dogs 'are about to reach the gate of hell and clubbed to death, scalded by boiling water, grilled alive and skinned alive. They are so terrified.'
TRACY YU: ‘A Chinese animal activist has been hospitalised after dog meat traders ganged up on her and beat her up when she tried to save hundreds of dogs bound for the barbaric Yulin festival… Each year, thousands of dogs are cruelly killed, skinned and cooked with blow-torches before being eaten by the Yulin locals during the festival held on the summer solstice… Du Yufeng, the founder of Bo Ai Animal Protection Centre, said she was hit in the head and all over her body by weapon-wielding vendors who prevented her and other animal lovers from releasing the dogs from their warehouse. The canines were said to be on their way to slaughterhouses catered to the Yulin annual dog meat festival…
Ms Du said she was assaulted while trying to rescue about 300 dogs – many of which were stolen pets – from a group of meat traders in the town of Lugu in south-west China’s Sichuan Province. She and two other female activists were attacked by the traders after a two-day standoff. Ms Du said one of her partners who is nearly 60 years old sustained two fractured ribs while she had been feeling dizzy and were still hospitalised nearly a month later. She also accused the officials of Xichuang city, which supervises Lugu, of colluding with meat traders by preventing animal activists from photographing and rescuing the dogs. The animal welfare group failed to save the dogs which were secretly killed by the local animal quarantine authority in a bid to eliminate evidence, Ms Du claimed.
It is said the mountainous province of Sichuan is now the most popular stopping point for meat traders to keep, sell and distribute illegally captured dogs, many of which would end up in Yulin in southern China’s Guangxi Province. In an open letter to the Sichuan government, Ms Du confessed that she couldn’t sleep at night knowing truckload after truckload of dogs were being squeezed into tiny chicken cages and transported on highways. ‘They are about to reach the gate of hell and clubbed to death, scalded by boiling water, grilled alive and skinned alive. They are so terrified,’ she wrote. She urged the Sichuan government to punish the dog meat traders’. SOURCE…
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