MASS SLAUGHTER STAINS 2005 EUROBASKETBALL TOURNEY

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SHAME ON THE 2005 EUROPEAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

 

 

Serbian officials round up dogs.

No dog is safe Brigitte

Bardot’s letter to Serbian President (see full

size copy below)

 

The 2005 European Basketball Championship in Belgrade,

Sponsored by FIBA (Federation Internationale de

Basketball) is stained with blood due to the massive extermination of hundreds

upon thousands of Companion Animals (Dogs and Cats (Pets)).

 

..

 

Behind the Scenes of the 2005 European

Basketball Championship

Prior to the current Serbian administration, Serbian politicians

promised to improve animal welfare

laws yet the horrendous conditions for all animals still exists in Serbia.

Today these same politicians ignore the pleas and cries from their own citizens

and individuals abroad including Brigitte Bardot to

stop the torture and murder of animals The following photographs depict how the

current Serbian administration is administering animal control. These animal

control methods were employed at an accelerated rate prior to the European

Basketball Championship.

 

 

 

Caught dogs and cats are transported on “Dog

Catcher” trucks which also contain the bodies of dead animals that have

already been poisoned and have been lying in the streets in cities and towns

throughout Serbia.

 

 

 

Scenes from Belgrade’s housing for animals, the

notorious city animal pound, OVCA.

 

Serbian streets continue to be inundated

with companion animals (dogs and cats). Animal control in Serbia consists of;

paying hunters for each animal killed (hunters present the animal’s tail

for payment), poison such as T-61 and Kreozan which

kills by suffocation, drenching the animal with gasoline and burning them to

death and other barbaric methods such as beating, stoning and hanging.

 

These brutal killings have accelerated in

the capital city of Belgrade, this past year in what seems to be a state

sponsored massacre. The government’s objective appears to be to present

the city as an attractive destination for tourists visiting sporting events

such as the “Belgrade Marathon” and the “European Basketball

Championship”. Even dogs that are sterilized (spayed / neutered) by

reputable organizations such as “Foundation Brigitte Bardot”

and fed by animal loving Serbian citizens have disappeared. According to these

citizens, what is even more astonishing is the lack of coverage by the Serbian

media of this slaughter. Serbian media continues to portray friendly dogs as

rabid, vicious killers to their audience which makes one wonder, have things

really changed since the media controlled Milosevic regime?

 

(left) Serbian media continues to portray dogs as rabid vicious killers to

their audience. Is this woman mourning a rabid vicious killer

 

 

(above)Tortured, murdered puppy.

 

EUROPEAN

INITIATIVE 17 (A Serbian Animal Rights / Welfare Organization) with the

international support of forty-four organizations who all strongly condemn the

inhumane killing of stray dogs and cats on the street of Belgrade and in Serbia

in preparation for the 2005 “European Basketball Championship”

or at anytime.

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HOW YOU CAN

HELP

 

Please send a letter today to the

following email addresses expressing your outrage. You can copy and paste the

sample letter below, adding your name at the bottom or compose your own letter

to the sponsors and participants of the Championship urging them to strongly

condemn the actions of Serbian authorities.

 

Just copy

info; basketbh; nora; office; office; lidija.pleic;

fjugnet; bgasperin;

bueker; helbasket; segreteria.generale; lbs; office; nb; bf; ksj; kzs; secretaria; emirt;

tbf; fbu; kabinet; predsednikvladesrbije; kabinet.minpolj; kabinet

 

Cc animals

 

 

Letter

 

Dear Sponsors and Participants;

 

Historically, Serbia’s war ended ten

years ago. However evidence shows that a war continues; only this time it is a

war against Companion Animals (Dogs and Cats). Thousands of animals have been

inhumanely rounded up, tortured, hanged, shot, beaten with sticks and rocks,

burned and poisoned in order to make Belgrade’s streets pristine for your

2005 European Basketball championship, causing this sporting event to be

smeared with blood. Serbian officials have ignored the cries and pleas of

individuals in Serbia and worldwide to halt these atrocities and implement

better animal welfare laws and policies. Since this savage massacre was caused

by the preparations for your sporting event, I would ask you and the sponsors

of the 2005 FIBA Eurochampionships to denounce these

atrocities publicly. I would also ask that you urge the Serbian government to

cease the brutal round up of animals, legislate and enforce better animal

welfare laws and implement a sterilization (spay / neuter) program for all

companion animals living on the streets throughout Serbia. We appreciate your

help in this cause.

 

(Name)

 

(Country)

 

 

Ms.

Brigitte BARDOT letter to Serbia’s President, Boris Tadic

 

 

Paris, April 25, 2005

 

 

 

Cabinet of President of Republic Srbia

g. Boris TADIC

Andricev Venac br. 1

11 000 BEOGRAD

SERBIA and MONTENEGRO

 

Open letter

 

Dear Mr. President,

 

It’s with a bruised heart and a

mourning soul that I appeal to you to end the revolting massacre of

Serbia’s stray animals. A number of accounts, accompanied by photos illustrating

the horror of the cruelties inflicted on these innocent beings, have reached my

Foundation. These accounts denounced the atrocity of the eradication campaigns,

led at the request of the authorities.

 

Vilified by the media, these dogs and cats

are becoming the scapegoats of a part of your population, which seems to take

sadistic pleasure in savagely torturing them. Equally, death squadrons

methodically patrol each region of Belgrade in order to mass poison the few

survivors of this eradication. The detergents and other products that are used

generate intolerable agony and suffering. Furthermore, what about the corpses

of the dogs whose fur is carefully removed?

 

I know that your country and people are

attempting to heal wounds, which were inherited from a shameful and violent

war. However, that was ten years ago. Today is the time for the reconstruction

of hearts and a long forgotten humanity.

 

The knowledge of atrocious acts committed

regularly on stray animals crosses frontiers. Your people have shown their bloody and

criminal behavior towards animals. Your capital is becoming, like Bucharest, a

window of horror. Neither the Belgrade marathon, nor the 2005 euro basketball

can justify this barbaric “cleaning”. You have the power to change

all this and to restore Serbia’s dignity. Push the elaboration of an

animal welfare bill, which favors sterilization and vaccination campaigns for

stray animals, similar to Greece and Turkey. Teach your people that animals,

even strays, have the right to our respect and compassion.

 

With hope that you hear my cry of

distress, sincerely yours,

 

Brigitte Bardot,

President

 

PETA’s letter to the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water

Management

 

January 28, 2005

 

Dr. Dejan Krnjaic

Veterinary Director

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management

SIV III Building, First Floor

Omladinskih Brigada 1 11070 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

 

Dear Dr. Krnjaic:

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of

Animals (PETA) is an international non-profit organization with more than

800,000 members and supporters dedicated to the humane treatment of animals.

Our office has recently received several letters and e-mails from Serbian

citizens who are deeply distressed over terrible cases of cruelty to animals

that they have witnessed in Serbia. The writers claim that there are no

national laws in place to prohibit such violent conduct toward animals. We have

received heartbreaking photographs taken in Belgrade of dead dogs hanging in

public (copies enclosed) and eyewitness statements about dogs being killed via

extremely cruel methods by municipalities, including intracardiac

(into the heart) injections of dangerous pesticides and by being thrown alive

into trash compactors where they are torturously crushed to death. We beg you to act immediately to implement laws that not only prohibit,

but punish malicious acts such as these.

 

Violence

toward animals has long been recognized as an indicator of dangerous

psychopathologies that do not confine themselves to animals. “Anyone who

has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless

is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives,”

wrote humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer. “Murderers ... very often start

out by killing and torturing animals as kids,” according to Robert K. Ressler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the

United States (US) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Studies have now

convinced sociologists, lawmakers, and the courts that acts of cruelty toward animals

deserve our attention. They can be the first sign of a violent pathology that

includes human victims.

 

Animal abuse is not just the result of a minor personality flaw in the abuser

but rather a symptom of a deep mental disturbance. Research in psychology and

criminology shows that people who commit acts of cruelty toward animals

don’t stop there; many of them move on to their fellow humans.

 

The FBI has found that a history of cruelty to animals is one of the traits

that regularly appear in its computer records of serial rapists and murderers,

and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional

disorders lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct

disorders.

 

A study conducted by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Society for

the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in the U.S. found that people who

abuse animals are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against

humans. The majority of inmates scheduled to be executed for murder at the

state of California’s San Quentin penitentiary “practiced”

their crimes on animals, according to the warden.

Cruelty to animals must be addressed by judicial

systems in every country to deter violence against animals and people alike,

and promote a safe, compassionate home for all citizens. We urge you to do

everything in your power to ensure the passage of national animal protection

laws in Serbia, and stand poised to assist you in any way needed in this

important undertaking.

May we please

hear from your office?

Thank you

very much for your valuable time and attention.

Most

respectfully,

Teresa

Lynn Chagrin, Animal Sheltering Advisor

Domestic Animal and Wildlife Rescue & Information

Department

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

501 Front Street, Norfolk, VA 23510 USA

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

President of Serbia, Svetozar Marovic

kabinet

 

Office of Prime Minister VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA

predsednikvladesrbije

 

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water

Management

kabinet.minpolj

 

Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Services

kabinet

 

2005 European Basketball Championship Sponsors and

Participating Basketball Teams

 

FIBA (International Basketball Federation)

info

 

Bosnia & Herzeg.

basketbh

 

Bulgaria

office; nora

 

Croatia

office; lidija.pleic

 

France

bgasperin;

fjugnet

 

Germany

bueker

 

Greece

helbasket

 

Italy

segreteria.generale

 

 

Latvia

lbs

 

 

Lithuania

office

 

 

Russia

nb; rbf

 

Serbia & Montenegro

ksj

 

Slovenia

kzs

 

Spain

secretaria

 

Turkey

emirt; tbf

 

Ukraine

fbu

 

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