Animal rights lawyers want officer who shot stray dogs in Kampar charged
Lawyers for Animal Rights wants the Kampar District Council enforcement officer who shot stray dogs on November 2 to be charged in court. — Reuters pic
IPOH, November 11 — Lawyers for Animal Rights (LAR) wants the Kampar District Council (MPK) enforcement officer who shot stray dogs on November 2 to be charged in court.
Lawyers Rajesh Nagarajan, Sachpreetraj Singh Sohanpal and Anne Marie Siaw in a joint statement said that none of the dead dogs had attacked the officers during the operation to capture strays, as claimed by the MPK.
“A number of residents witnessed approximately four to five officers from the district council driving around in an MPK pickup truck.
“One of the officers was sitting inside the vehicle and from the safety of the vehicle was aiming, shooting and killing the dogs that were fleeing.
“According to the residents, the stray dogs in Taman Kampar Barat are docile, friendly, and most are neutered. None of the murdered dogs had attacked the MPK officers,” they said.
The trio said that eyewitnesses to the incident have since lodged separate police reports against the MPK and its officers.
“LAR strongly denounces the illegal and gruesome shooting of stray dogs and states that the MPK shootings are illegal pursuant to Section 30 of the Animal Welfare Act 2015.
“Any shooting of stray dogs is a blatant contravention of the Act,” it said.
“LAR demands that MPK, police and the Department of Veterinary Services take immediate and decisive action to hold the MPK officers responsible for this heinous crime to be charged in a court of law,” it added.
The lawyers warned MPK that it does not have the legal standing to kill the 24 dogs and that no harm should have befallen them.
Previously, MPK claimed that its enforcement team opened fire to protect themselves from being attacked by the canines that were violent and aggressive during the attempt to capture them.
Council president Abdul Halim Saad that the operation was carried out following complaints from various parties, including West City Management, LDS International Management and Keranji assemblyman’s office, which reported that the strays attacked and bit nearby residents.
He said that the main focus of the operation was to identify and capture the aggressive stray dogs as they were a threat to the public.
He explained that only four dogs were killed, while 24 stray dogs were successfully captured alive in the operation.
IPOH, November 11 — Lawyers for Animal Rights (LAR) wants the Kampar District Council (MPK) enforcement officer who shot stray dogs on November 2 to be charged in court.
Lawyers Rajesh Nagarajan, Sachpreetraj Singh Sohanpal and Anne Marie Siaw in a joint statement said that none of the dead dogs had attacked the officers during the operation to capture strays, as claimed by the MPK.
“A number of residents witnessed approximately four to five officers from the district council driving around in an MPK pickup truck.
“One of the officers was sitting inside the vehicle and from the safety of the vehicle was aiming, shooting and killing the dogs that were fleeing.
“According to the residents, the stray dogs in Taman Kampar Barat are docile, friendly, and most are neutered. None of the murdered dogs had attacked the MPK officers,” they said.
The trio said that eyewitnesses to the incident have since lodged separate police reports against the MPK and its officers.
“LAR strongly denounces the illegal and gruesome shooting of stray dogs and states that the MPK shootings are illegal pursuant to Section 30 of the Animal Welfare Act 2015.
“Any shooting of stray dogs is a blatant contravention of the Act,” it said.
“LAR demands that MPK, police and the Department of Veterinary Services take immediate and decisive action to hold the MPK officers responsible for this heinous crime to be charged in a court of law,” it added.
The lawyers warned MPK that it does not have the legal standing to kill the 24 dogs and that no harm should have befallen them.
Previously, MPK claimed that its enforcement team opened fire to protect themselves from being attacked by the canines that were violent and aggressive during the attempt to capture them.
Council president Abdul Halim Saad that the operation was carried out following complaints from various parties, including West City Management, LDS International Management and Keranji assemblyman’s office, which reported that the strays attacked and bit nearby residents.
He said that the main focus of the operation was to identify and capture the aggressive stray dogs as they were a threat to the public.
He explained that only four dogs were killed, while 24 stray dogs were successfully captured alive in the operation.
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kt comments:
I won't be surprised if comments alluding to the race-religion of the MPK enforcement officers now surface in regards to this news.
It also reminds me a story my Unc told me, about his military matey who was another "dog-killer" though not of the shooting type.
According to Unc, said matey would drive around KL at night in his old VW car targeting canines. On spying one, say, by the roadside, he would swerve suddenly onto the unsuspecting hound and hit the poor animal to its death. He did this for a while, just for his sick enjoyment. His actions had nothing to do with race, religion or hatred for dogs. He was just a sort of anarchist, going around knocking off animals, with dogs unfortunately being his preferred targets.
dog trying to 'wake' a dead friend up after being killed by a car
One day he informed my Unc he won't kill dogs anymore as he had a divine warning to cease and desist from his naughty sins. What happened was at the moment of his deliberate-hitting of a dog with his car, there was a tremendous boom of thunder - KL was experiencing a severe thunderstorm at that time. He took it as a stern warning from the Almighty and Unc said he was truly petrified with fear.
Of course my Unc didn't bother to inform him that thunder and lightning would be natural phenomena during a thunderstorm especially a severe one. But the story pointed to a sad sickening story of dog-killing THOUGH minus the factors of religion and race.
4 dogs guarding carcass of 'friend' just killed by a car, in China
Once I kept a 3-legged dog which was a stray. I felt sorry for that dog which showed another of its 3 remaining leg suffering a huge sore. I thought if that sore eventually deteriorated to the stage of incapacitating the poor creature, it would no longer be able to hop around as it then was with its 3 legs.
So I coaxed that dog to my house, applied the 'famous' Chinese wonder-medicine of "693" in quite an innovative way in dealing with a still-suspicious-of-me stray (any Chinese older than 30 years would be able to explain what that was/is), successfully healed the sore, and kept it as a very faithful pet.
One day it went missing and a kind neighbour informed me he say my dog hopping around the main road. To my sorrow, I found it dead, killed by a passing vehicle. Probably it lacked the agility to keep out of the way of the passing vehicle which could well have been a lorry - yes, the main road was usually heavy with lorry traffic.
yet another dog trying to 'wake' aother dead friend up after being killed by a car
Stray dogs are a menace in city areas.
ReplyDeleteThey should be put down.